Adagio, from Toccata, Adagio & Fugue in C (arr. Leopold Stokowski)

Composer: BACH, Johann Sebastian
  • Bach’s Toccata, Adagio & Fugue BWV 564 for organ was composed around 1712.1
  • This movement was originally an organ solo line over realized figured bass accompaniment (an all-organ imitation of the sound of a solo instrument with continuo)2
  • Listen for: a melody over seventh chords with suspensions (less technical: melody over dramatic, dissonant [or chromatic] chords)3
  • Read more about arranger, Leopold Stokowski

Sources

  1. Christoph Wolff and Walter Emery, “Bach, Johann Sebastian,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed July 15, 2019, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-6002278195.
  2. Ibid.
  3. Peter Williams, The Organ Music of J.S. Bach, 2nd ed. (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 150-154.

Cut IDs

10576