Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . - ??. FRfM A PRINT PUBLISHED EY HOFFMEISTER & KOHNEL, LEIP6IC. 38 JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH fifteenth year of the publications of the Bach Gesellschaft, pages 276-286,and begins with a prelude, which the editor, Dr. Wilhelm Rust, hasmarked Toccata III. This is succeeded by a four-voiced, broadly treatedfugue. Both parts are in E major. A short interlude in eleven measures,closing on the chord of the dominant, leads to a second, five-voiced fugue,three-quarter time, also in E major, which ends the piece. The nobility, originality, and daring of the them

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Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . - ??. FRfM A PRINT PUBLISHED EY HOFFMEISTER & KOHNEL, LEIP6IC. 38 JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH fifteenth year of the publications of the Bach Gesellschaft, pages 276-286,and begins with a prelude, which the editor, Dr. Wilhelm Rust, hasmarked Toccata III. This is succeeded by a four-voiced, broadly treatedfugue. Both parts are in E major. A short interlude in eleven measures,closing on the chord of the dominant, leads to a second, five-voiced fugue,three-quarter time, also in E major, which ends the piece. The nobility, originality, and daring of the theme, the equally artistic,because natural, flowing of the counterpoint in the fugue, the richness ofharmony, the solid form of the separate parts, the organic shaping of thewhole work, reveal Bach as a perfected master of composition. The tech-nical difficulties of the Concertata, which he wrote for his own use,prove to us that Bach was at that time an unsurpassable organ the work was originally written in E major or in C major

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