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Passicaglia and Fugue in C Minor - Bach

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This is an excellent performance, recording and video of Bach's epic Passicaglia and Fugue in C minor. Hans-Andre Stamme is the Organist, performing on the Trost Organ in Waltershausen.

You don't need to understand what a passicaglia or fugue are to enjoy this brilliant work, but in case you are curious, here is a brief definition.

A passicaglia is a baroque form characterized by a single repeating musical subject - usually in the bass - that is threaded into the fabric of the entire piece. It's kind of a musical game for composers, where you try to create as much variety and fluidity as possible while retaining a single melody within the piece at all times. This is probably the best and most well known passicaglia in existence.

A fugue is a baroque form that uses one short melody - or subject - as the basis for the entire piece, allowing for as much variation or manipulation of the subject as the composer pleases.

In this piece the fugal subject is taken directly from the Passicaglia subject.

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kronosposeidon

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Pipe organs are one of my favorite instruments. I don't know how anyone can get so skilled at something with several keyboards, a pedalboard, and stops for each one.

From Wikepedia:

The origins of the pipe organ can be traced back to the hydraulis in Ancient Greece in the third century BC, in which the wind supply was created with water pressure. By the sixth or seventh century AD, bellows were used to supply organs with wind. Beginning in the twelfth century, the organ began to evolve into a complex instrument capable of producing different timbres. By the seventeenth century, most of the sounds available on the modern classical organ had been developed. From that time, the pipe organ was the most complex man-made device; it retained this distinction until it was displaced by the telephone exchange in the late nineteenth century.

I can barely tie my fucking shoes.