Toccata and Fugue in D minor facts for kids
The Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 is a work for organ by Johann Sebastian Bach. It was written about 1708. It is often identified with melodramatic silent movies and scary movies, and was made famous when Walt Disney included the music in his animated movie Fantasia. Today, though, the original manuscript is lost and the work is known through copies made by Bach's students.
In Popular Culture
Toccata has been referenced many times throughout popular culture. It is often used to represent fright, mystery, or the macabre, possibly due being written in a minor key.
- Woodstra, Chris, et al. 2005. All Music Guide to Classical Music. All Music Guide, LLC. p. 50. ISBN: 0-87930-865-6.
Images for kids
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Beginning of BWV 565 in Johannes Ringk's manuscript, which is, as far as known, the only extant 18th-century copy of the work
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Title page of Ringk's manuscript
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Digital facsimiles of the Ringk manuscript became widely available in the 21st century
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Program of Mendelssohn's 1840 organ concert: BWV 565 is listed as last piece by Bach, before the "Freie Phantasie" which was an improvisation by Mendelssohn.
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Edison Bell Velvet Face (VF) recording No. 676 (part 1): Marie Novello's performance of Tausig's arrangement of BWV 565. The VF series with a bright green label ran from 1925 to 1927.
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Trailer for Fantasia
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Quadruple stops, not uncommon for 18th century solo violin music, could have been used in passages such as this, taken from the ending.
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See also
In Spanish: Tocata y fuga en re menor, BWV 565 para niños
