ExclusiveBach: Toccata in D major, BWV 912 Randolph Hokanson

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Johann Sebastian Bach: Toccata in D major, BWV 912. This beautiful piece was played by Randolph Hokanson. It has Creative Commons license (CC BY-SA 3.0 Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported) and is provided through www.musopen.org.

The Toccatas for Keyboard, BWV 910-916, are seven keyboard pieces written by Johann Sebastian Bach. Although the pieces were not originally organised into a collection by Bach himself (as were most of his other keyboard works, such as the Well Tempered Clavier and the English Suites), the pieces share many similarities and are often grouped and performed together under a collective title.

The Toccatas are Bach's earliest keyboard compositions known under a collective title. The earliest sources for BWV 910, 911 and 916 appear in the Andreas Bach Book, an important collection of keyboard and organ manuscripts by various composers compiled by Bach's eldest brother, Johann Christoph Bach, between 1707 and 1713. An early version of BWV 912 (known as BWV 912a) also exists in another collection compiled by Johann Christoph Bach, known as the "Möller Manuscript", between about 1703 and 1707. This suggests that most of these works date from no later than Bach's early Weimar years, although the early North German style suggests a possible Arnstadt origin.

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