" Also, the song " Last Rites / Loved to Deth " reinterprets the introduction of Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 by Johann Sebastian Bach, speeding up the tempo.

Title page of BWV 565 in Johannes Ringk's handwriting.

The Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565, is a piece of organ music attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach.

First page of BWV 565 in Ringk's copy

As with most Bach organ works, no autograph manuscript of BWV 565 survives.

In addition, a passage from the fugue of BWV 565 ( bars 36 – 37 ) closely resembles one of the sections from Johann Pachelbel's Fantasia in D minor, Perreault 125.

Bach's toccatas are among the most famous examples of the form, and his Toccata and Fugue in D Minor BWV 565 is one of the most popular organ works today, although its authorship is disputed by some authorities.

These had green labels, and the catalogue included some ambitious items, such as an abridged version ( 1925 ) of Edward Elgar's oratorio The Dream of Gerontius and, from Novello, what has been reported as the first recording of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 ( arranged for piano by Carl Tausig ) and a complete recording of Mendelssohn's First Piano Concerto, her sole recording of a work extending over more than two record sides.

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The game's background music is an electronic, fast-paced arrangement of J. S. Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 ; this particular arrangement is superficially similar in sound to " Toccata ", a rock arrangement by the UK-based instrumentalist group Sky.

Of Tausig's original compositions and numerous arrangements of classical works the following may be mentioned: Deux Études de Concert, replacing an earlier pianoforte transcription of his symphonic ballad Das Geisterschiff ; Ungarische Zigeunerweisen, a composition for pianoforte ; Nouvelles Soirées de Vienne ; Tägliche Studien, finger exercises of high value ; a selection of studies from Clementi's Gradus ad Parnassum ; a transcription of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 ; and adaptations of Weber's Invitation to the Dance, and of six Beethoven quartets ; transcriptions of Schubert's Marche Militaire No. 1 in D and of Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, The Ride of the Valkyries, and Siegmund's Love Song.

* Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565

* Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 – the best known " Toccata and Fugue ", for organ

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Bach, BWV 565.

* 1992-Toccata and Fugue, BWV 565, string quartet ( J S Bach, arr Martland )

The autograph manuscript of BWV 582 is currently considered lost ; the work, as is typical for Bach's and contemporary composers ' works, is known only through a number of copies.

Bach set the German words in his cantata for Visitation of 1724, Meine Seel erhebt den Herren, BWV 10.

The Musical Offering ( German title Musikalisches Opfer or Das Musikalische Opfer ), BWV 1079, is a collection of canons and fugues and other pieces of music by Johann Sebastian Bach, all based on a single musical theme given to him by Frederick the Great ( Frederick II of Prussia ), to whom they are dedicated.

The Art of Fugue ( or The Art of the Fugue, original German: Die Kunst der Fuge ), BWV 1080, is a supposedly incomplete work by Johann Sebastian Bach ( 1685 – 1750 ).

Bach for short orchestral introductions to large vocal works, as in his cantata BWV 106, a practice with precedent in the work of the earlier German composer Nicolaus Bruhns.

By the time this type of overture was adapted by German composers like Bach and Handel from the early 18th century on, it could be as well the preluding movement of a ( dance ) suite, in which case overture was sometimes used as a synonym for the entire suite ( e. g. Bach's French Overture, BWV 831 ).

It might be possible to think that Satie took formally similar secular cantatas for one or two voices and a moderate accompaniment as his examples for the musical form of Socrate: nearly all Italian and German baroque composers had written such small-scale cantatas, generally on an Italian text: Vivaldi ( RV 649-686 ), Handel ( HWV 77-177 ), Bach ( BWV 203, 209 ), etc.

The two most important German composers of the late Baroque era, Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel, both studied Kerll's work: Bach arranged the Sanctus part of Kerll's Missa superba in his Sanctus in D major ( BWV 241 ), and Handel frequently borrowed themes, and sometimes whole pieces, from Kerll's canzonas ( the theme from Canzona No. 6 is taken for Let all the Angels of God from Messiah, Egypt was Glad from Israel in Egypt is practically similar to Canzona No. 4, etc.

* Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern BWV 1 on the Bach website ( in German )

* BWV 10 Meine Seel erhebt den Herren text, structure, instrumentation, University of Alberta

Some scholars have speculated that there is a symbolic component to the structure of the work: for instance, Martin Radulescu argues that BWV 582 / 1 is " in the form of a cross ".

* Johann Sebastian Bach's Prelude in b minor from the Well-Tempered Clavier BWV 866, arranged for string quartet with the first six bars augmented with a viola part by Igor Stravinsky, completed by Louis Andriessen ( 2006 )

Keith Emerson contributed a series of treatments of classical pieces ( such as Bach's French Suite No. 1 in D minor, BWV 812 and Bartok's ' Allegro Barbaro '), Carl Palmer provided a drum solo ( called " Tank ") and Greg Lake provided two ballads, beginning with the folky, extended work " Take a Pebble ".

Of these, the most valuable is the " handexemplar ", kept in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, which includes corrections and additions made by the composer, including an appendix with fourteen canons based on the first eight bass notes of the aria, BWV 1087.

It has been argued by a musicologist, Ursula Kirkendale that the composition of Johann Sebastian Bach's Das Musikalische Opfer ( The Musical Offering, BWV 1079 ), was closely connected with the Institutio Oratoria.

In 1715 he became librarian and vice-principal at Weimar, where he became good friends with Johann Sebastian Bach ( Bach later dedicated his Canon a 2 perpetuus BWV 1075 to Gesner ), in 1729 ( having been dismissed as librarian at Weimar ) rector of the gymnasium at Ansbach, and in 1730 rector of the Thomasschule at Leipzig.

* http :// www. jsbach. org / bwvs800. html contains the BWV listing including the Partitas ( with their tonalities ).

They are written for basso continuo and two violins, except 1039 which is written for two flutes and basso continuo ( which concurs with BWV 1027 ).

Jarvis proposes that Anna Magdalena wrote the six Cello Suites, and was involved with the composition of the aria from the Goldberg Variations ( BWV 988 ).

** Suite No. 2 in B Minor, BWV 1067: with Yehudi Menuhin / Bath Festival Orchestra

** Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D, BWV 1050: with Yehudi Menuhin / George Malcolm / Bath Festival Orchestra

Beginning of BWV 736, with an anacrusis shown in red.

The first movement can also be found in reworked form as the sinfonia of the cantata Ich liebe den Höchsten von ganzem Gemüte, BWV 174, with the addition of three oboes and two horns.

Bach presented these as a Missa with a set of parts ( Kyrie plus Gloria, BWV 232a ) to Augustus with a note dated 27 July 1733, in the hope of obtaining the title, " Electoral Saxon Court Composer ", complaining that he had " innocently suffered one injury or another " in Leipzig.

Popular examples include the Air from the 3rd Orchestral Suite, BWV 1068 ( of which Air on the G String is an arrangement for violin and piano made in the 19th century by August Wilhelmj ) and the Goldberg Aria with variations, BWV 988, a baroque clavier work, both composed by and the Air from Water Music, in the Suite in F Major, HWV 348, by George Frideric Handel.

The BWV catalogue is occasionally updated, with newly discovered works added at its end, though spurious works do not have their numbers removed.

The Clavier Concerto in G minor, BWV 1058, is an arrangement of this concerto with piano or harpsichord.

J. S. Bach's famous cantata Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, BWV 51 ( 1730 ) begins with a flamboyant da capo aria for soprano, trumpet soloist, and strings.

* " The Wedge Fugue " is the popular name given to the organ fugue from Prelude and Fugue in E minor ( BWV 548 ) by Johann Sebastian Bach on account of the opening theme which starts with one note, then with two notes either side forming a minor third ( a small interval ) and then gradually widening to an octave.

For example, Shostakovich begins his C major prelude, the first piece in the cycle, with exactly the same notes that Bach uses in his own C major prelude, BWV 846, which likewise begins The Well-Tempered Clavier.