Agreed!

everyone who has a soul

literally everyone

Bach is my favourite composer!!!!!

Well, this is certainly a novel and non-conformist opinion.

Did he pass away or does he just not upload any more?

@@svenlangstrom8927 He passed away sadly

​@@CR33SIVE How do you know?

@@marcossidoruk8033 A close friend of his revealed on Reddit I believe, his name and age were revealed too

@@marcossidoruk8033someone who claimed to know him said in a video comment that he died of a heart attack

I love that the passacaglia is the subject of the fugue.

Bach actually named it "Passacaglia *with* fugue, so it would make sense to build the fugue on the same theme.

And traditionally the fuge would just be part of the natural progression of the work, just like the Buxtehude works, so really they shouldn't be considered different pieces or movements.

Imagine being so egotistical that you feel the need to leave your name after a simple timestamp.

His music is so deep and vast!

He devoted his life to it practicing hours over hours since he was a choirboy. Of course he also had great teachers including the famous organist Böhm in Lüneberg.

There's a rumor that Shakespeare is just a label for a group of people. Who knows, perhaps, "Bach" is not a single man, but a label too.

@@a.n.9890 Unlikely. But, Bach did copy/collect allot of music, as a busy musician would do back in the day, and later this music was mistaken as his own compositions, until we can prove otherwise. That famous fugue in D minor and menuet in G major are perfect examples.

Bach was a miracle for sure. People saying he only worked hard bla bla bla doesn't seem to understand the vastness of his genius. Sure he worked hard. But there is something greater at play here. He was a musical sage. No human has ever had such deep understanding of music as Bach had. Even as a teenager he was the greatest composer of his time. As you said unfathomable. The greatest musical mind of all time by a mile.

St. Gerubach ?

Humanity

He is now.✝

Agree!

Yes it does, BWV 565 actually only has one part where you are holding one finger down and doing 16th notes with the other 4 on one hand. It happens ALL THE TIME on this piece.

I think they're equal in beauty but this is certainly far more virtuosic.

Funny you should say that

Bach was ONLY 20 when he composed the Toccata and Fugue in d. So, yeah.

@@chrispalo5122 no he was only 20 when he composed the passacaglia. He was younger when he composed 565 and it was a violin sonata from the beginning, not written for organ

I think it's rated quite well

Nah

And the fucking talent to tippy toe those pedal lines... while playing fingerrexercises on the upper keyboards.. must have been truly a master of improv

Jeff Hall This is why Bach is known as the greatest master.

Jeff Hall - Just listening to it makes you feel smarter!

And in the days before tape recorders and cell phones, he had to keep all that in memory, to hold that in mind and where it was coming from and going to, then write all that down on hand-ruled paper and with a quill and inkwell. The single minded focus of doing that!

It really does.

@Deborah Only half of the bars form part of the theme..still, Bach could get inspired b somrthing so innocuous and turn it into a towering masterpiece!

Almost agreed. There's so many to choose from, like the whole Art of Fugue, the Chaconne, the WTC I and II. But there is a very special place in my heart for BWV 582. It is the music of creation. I can't fathom a mind coming up with this sort of music.

I agree but rarely do we ever get to hear it play up to speed. This version is "too correct." In short, plodding. I rather like it when the performer expresses the dance mode a little better. This in not a dance of death. After all, Bach smoked... but don't tell his mother. Joy... do you hear it?

Eric Lopez he specified organ work. Not work in general.

@@JuanSantos-yq1jn Ooh, BWV 524 is close-- so close. I love that work.

@@charlesdavis7087 A pipe organ is not a harpsichord with pedals. As Bach was a choir boy, his conception of organ music is closer to singing than instrumental dance music.

@@marensavino nope

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Do you play this? Do you have it on a soundcloud link somewhere? I would like to hear it.

Summed up Bach in a nutshell. Building an architectural monument to God. Learning the pipe organ is a big, big dream of mine.

LOL

"nanana nanana NA, YAH"

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Ya know, "gangster" isn't the first word that came to mind, for me. But, hell yeah! It is! 😄

What exactly do you mean by Neapolitan?

@@richrol58 It's a musical mode I believe. Such as a major triad built on another note.

Согласен, очень похоже на вивальди

​@@richrol58A major chord built on the lowered second note of the scale

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8 years later, and this is still true.

BWV 232, 244, 245, 1046-1051, and 1080 are more perfect than this in my personal opinion. However, this is a VERY close 2nd to all of the above.

Philip Jones amen

And so it shall stand... long after you and I have passed beyond the world of appearances. Yet, think not we parish. The tune is simple and yet alive. The dance. The great pasacalligia. And... did you dance... while on Earth?

I discovered it as the "B-side" to "Tocatta and Fugue in D-minor" on an album, E. Power Biggs Plays Bach In The Thomaskirche (Leipzig)...!

​@@richrol58AT home. St thomas Kirche Leipzig. What a place !!!!

@@thomasdastillung4097 Are you from Leipzig??

I think Bach historians have found copies of organ tablature from Bach dating back to his teenage years, indicating that he was already studying the styles of Buxtehude, Böhm, Pachelbel, etc., meaning that he was already a virtuoso organist.

Are you sure its not around 1080 pièces in the BWV ? 5000 ? Sure ?

​@@thomasdastillung4097 The BWV pieces are just the surviving pieces. About 2/3rds of Bach's music is unfortunately lost.

​@@orb3796 With all the gems in the surviving third, it really makes you wonder what we're missing out on in the other two thirds.

Yeah guess this Romantic approach on a Baroque Organ really allows us to get a more interesting interpretation aside from the Full Organ sound (all Ranks and Couplers on) which is also interesting.

Gianni Caccese for me it is not a funeral march at all! It sounds like wrestling with the challenges of life.

LOL yep

True dat, I did.

They knew how to drop the bass back in the day.

@@johannsebastianbach3411 dude!!!! This is awesome! All your organ works!

dondokodokodon you are right

dondokodokodon - Yup, lots of optical illusions rely on the brain's ability to compensate or null out a persistent visual effect such that when suddenly removed, the opposite sensation or effect is experienced.

Motion After Effect.

I'm on day three of Simply Organ and on day four I will learn this piece. I'm so excited!

As far as I am concerned, this is Bach's greatest piece for the organ.

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@@user-yk5cu5ke5b Мы все с тобой.

​@@user-yk5cu5ke5b prekracen slova. Spacibo bolshoe.

@@thomasdastillung4097 3:47 у меня играет в голове уже неделю это точно ангел человек не мог бы такое найти в себе Иоган Себастьянович и ещë Кто-то и мы...

@@user-yk5cu5ke5b Ты прав

LOL. I know, this does inspire a desire to play the organ, and I have deep respect for those who have mastered Bach's astonishing organ works. I did hear a piano rendition of this piece once, though.

There are many arrangements of this for two pianos, piano four hands, or solo piano. I definitely recommend looking at Max Reger's transcription/arrangement for piano four hands.

I feel, hear, and share, your sorrow.

No need to regret anything. Just get an organ, or access to an organ, get a teacher or teach-yourself books, and start learning! Piano knowledge will give you a great start.

You can just learn organ!

Me too

PointyTailofSatan thank you

He has to also based his manuals on Dietrich Buxtehude's Passacaglia in d minor; many motivs, pedal points, syncopations and triplets are similar.

He clearly listened to and read them both. But as a great artist, he combined them to something far greater than the sum of these two. They seem amateurish before Bach's passacaglia. Throw some ideas and a climax and a Picardy third and it's okay. Bach took it a step further, that's why it's remembered as one of the greatest pieces in music literature.

A very interesting thing is that the passacaglia intro is almost identical to "Prelude in the Dorian Mode" by Percy Grainger. Interestingly, Grainger does not credit Bach as the original composer, but instead a Spanish Renaissance composer by the name of Antonio dé Cabezon. Going back and listening to the original piece by Cabezon, you will find that the particular composition barely resembles "Prelude in the Dorian Mode", yet this passacaglia does. Strange.

@@bassoonist4884 Gonna check it out, thanks!

Is the Matthew Passion done yet?

Je vous l'accorde volontiers , Celle de Ton Koopman n'est pas mal non plus !

@@agilroberdamas . Ah oui , Ton Koopman est aussi un grand.

I like it when the bass IS strong. What you call "black Triumph ?"

Heavy Vacation Bach was a virtuoso and was not afraid to show it. The classical composers immediately after him wrote elevator music essentially. Mozart virtuoso writing came through when he wrote for the great singers of his time.

@Deborah Indeed!! The "Classical" style of classical music was very boring..it took towering geniuses such as Beethoven and Mozart to make it sublime!! Poor Papa Haydn, sorry most of your music is boring...yes, I'm wicked! :P

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what?

I think it did feature in "The Godfather".

@@Musicienne-DAB1995 The introduction of the passacaglia was indeed featured in “The Godfather”, during the baptism scene. So was the ending of the prelude from the Prelude and Fugue in D Major, BWV 532.

Nah, his concertos are better

What does happen to Super Mario while listening to Bach?... I don't have video games, I am curious...

Le tempo emporterait aussi super Mario ! No problemo !

Bach was far ahead of his time.

@@Musicienne-DAB1995 That's not a tritone substitution, at least not in the way Bach was thinking of it- that's an incredibly common bii6 chord, also known as a Neapolitan chord, which was a very common substitution for IV in in IV-V-I progression in Bach's time and far after. Bach was very ahead of his times in some ways, incredibly conservative in others- this however was just a very common harmonic device used by every composer at the time.

Me too!

try his trio sonatas 525 thru 530 if you want counterpoint! Breathtaking!

How does one begin to understand this piece, or anything other piece of music that just for some reason one can't seem to get a grasp of? I'm not entirely new to classical, I've been listening for about 2-2.5 years (still relatively new compared to some I guess), and there are some pieces that I simply just can't "get". There are some pieces that do seem to click initially, or even after about 2-3 listens, like Bach's Chaconne, but there are some that take much, much longer, and some that I feel I'm destined never to be able to understand not matter how many times I listen. I know that repetition is probably the most cut and dry way, but I wonder if there are other methods I could use that I'm not aware of yet to pick up on what's going on quicker, or is that this seeming lack of a musical 'ear' is something that I'll just have to deal with my entire life? One thing I do know is that attention is important when it comes to listening to music. Truthfully that's definitely something I could improve on, because I find myself distracted by thoughts when I'm trying to listen to a piece, but it doesn't seem like a direct way to train one's musical ear. I feel I have one to a certain extent, but that it falls short in being able to listen to some relatively more complicated works. I feel like it might just be something you either have or you don't.

It says Harpsichord or Organ cause this was probally also a Harpsichord Piece. Pedal Harpsichord version please?

BACH IS UNIVERSAL

Matej Taskov Is not typical 'cuz Bach had his own composition style. And it's really used in actual pieces.

Bach's harmonic progressions predicetd many later styles.

Bach is ahead of everyone’s time.