Great Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542
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The Great Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV
542, is an organ prelude
and fugue
by Johann Sebastian Bach
. It acquired that name to distinguish it from the earlier Little Fugue in G minor
, which is shorter. This piece is not to be confused with the Prelude and Fugue in A minor
, which is also for organ and also sometimes called "the Great."
It was transcribed for piano by Franz Liszt
as S.463.
BWV
The Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis is the numbering system identifying compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach. The prefix BWV, followed by the work's number, is the shorthand identification for Bach's compositions...
542, is an organ prelude
Prelude (music)
A prelude is a short piece of music, the form of which may vary from piece to piece. The prelude can be thought of as a preface. It may stand on its own or introduce another work...
and fugue
Fugue
In music, a fugue is a compositional technique in two or more voices, built on a subject that is introduced at the beginning in imitation and recurs frequently in the course of the composition....
by Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
. It acquired that name to distinguish it from the earlier Little Fugue in G minor
Little Fugue in G minor, BWV 578
Fugue in G minor, BWV 578, "Little", is a piece of organ music written by Johann Sebastian Bach sometime around his years at Arnstadt ....
, which is shorter. This piece is not to be confused with the Prelude and Fugue in A minor
Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 543
"The Great" Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 543 is a piece of organ music written by Johann Sebastian Bach sometime around his years as court organist to the Duke of Saxe-Weimar . It is the final incarnation of Bach's harpsichord Fugue in A minor, BWV 944, written in 1708...
, which is also for organ and also sometimes called "the Great."
It was transcribed for piano by Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt ; ), was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher.Liszt became renowned in Europe during the nineteenth century for his virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age...
as S.463.
External links
- Free download of BWV 542 recorded by James KibbieJames KibbieJames Kibbie is an American concert organist, recording artist and pedagogue. He is Professor of Organ at the University of Michigan.- Biography :James Kibbie was born in 1949 in Vinton, Iowa, USA...
on the 1736 Erasmus Bielfeldt organ in St. Wilhadi, Stade, Germany