[10] However, Billeter's argument makes authorship by Bach more likely: Bach's harpsichord toccatas (most of them early works) have simplistic elements and quirks similar to BWV 565. If none was specified, then Toccata and Fugue in d minor, BWV 565 was a likely candidate. Walter Emery advocated that scepticism was a necessary condition to approaching the history of Bach's organ compositions,[139] and Friedrich Blume saw problems with the traditional historiography of Bach's youth. Stringing Along", pp. Bach. In any case, for a classically trained musician such a glaring reference to one of the most hackneyed commonplaces of Western art music—certainly the most hackneyed within Bach's output (although its authorship has long been disputed)—clashes with the alleged intention of paying homage to the Eisenach maestro." [112], BWV 565 was used as film music well before the sound film era, becoming a cliché to illustrate horror and villainy. Hilgenfeldt considers the Toccata and Fugue in F major the most accomplished of Bach's toccatas for organ. The last bars are played Molto adagio, and the piece ends with a minor plagal cadence. In Ringk's manuscript the upper stave is written down using the soprano clef (as was common in the time when the manuscript originated), where printed editions use the treble clef. for the opening baroque mordent of J. S. Bach's Toccata. The tune plays at the start of the game. Taylor begins his narrative with, "What you’re going to see is the designs and pictures and stories of what music inspired in the minds and imaginations of a group of artists." [57] In that, and subsequent releases of Walcha's recordings of BWV 565 on Deutsche Grammophon (DG), there is an obvious evolution of the work from "one among many" organ compositions by Bach to a definite signature piece by the composer. His suggestions for the organ registration make comparisons with how the piece would be played by an orchestra. Williams sees stylistic matches with Pachelbel, with the north German organ school, and with the Italian violin school, but sees various unusual features of the composition as well. Common Knowledge: This piece is often referred to as "Dracula's theme", but to date, it's never … By the time Disney's Fantasia was released in 1940, the animations accompanying BWV 565 had been made semi-abstract, although Fischinger's original idea that the performance of the music start with showing Stokowski directing his orchestra was preserved. [150] The violinist Andrew Manze produced his own reconstruction, also in A minor, which he has performed and recorded. [116] BWV 565 also appeared in Fellini's 1960 La Dolce Vita. Whether these derive from an earlier manuscript independent from Ringk's (possibly in the C. P. E. Bach/Johann Friedrich Agricola/Johann Kirnberger circle) is debated by scholars. In general, the later copies show a less excessive use of fermatas in the opening measures and are more correct in making the note values fit the measures, but that may as well be from polishing a defective source as from deriving from a cleaner earlier source. [2][6] According to Dietrich Kilian, who edited BWV 565 for the New Bach Edition, Ringk penned his copy of the Toccata and Fugue between 1730 and 1740. [31] It has been presented as an emanation of the galant style, yet too dramatic to be anything near that style. [91], Up to this point, none of the biographers seem to have given any special attention to BWV 565. 71–89 in. 4 (2:37, Toccata only – Fugue of that, J. S. Bach – L'Œuvre Pour Orgue – Intégrale en 24 disques, Vol. His description of the piece refers to long sections that are surfeit: "rocking passages which have no connection whatever with the chief idea" and organ recitatives alternating with "ponderous, roaring masses of chords". The section ends with a diminished seventh chord which resolved into the tonic, D minor, through a flourish. [144] Williams suggested that the piece may have been created by another composer who must have been born in the beginning of the 18th century, since details of style (such as triadic harmony, spread chords, and the use of solo pedal) may indicate post–1730, or even post–1750 idioms. ", which is usually seen as the key signature being D minor. [10] Its defining characteristics have been associated with extant compositions by Bach (BWV 531, 549a, 578, 911, 914, 922 and several of the solo violin sonatas and partitas),[10][14][33][34][35] and by others (including Nicolaus Bruhns and Johann Heinrich Buttstett),[10] as well as with untraceable earlier versions for other instruments and/or by other composers. 330–337 in, Albrecht, Timothy E. (1980). [10][15], A multi-sectional coda follows, marked Recitativo. The title page of the first publication of the piece already indicated that performance on the piano by one or two players was possible. This is corroborated by the fact that the subject of the fugue, and certain passages (such as bars 12–15), are evidently inspired by string music. [156] In 1993, Salvatore Sciarrino made an arrangement for solo flute,[157] recorded by Mario Caroli. Familiarity with the piece was enhanced in the second half of the 19th century by a fairly successful piano version by Carl Tausig, but it was not until the 20th century that its popularity rose above that of other organ compositions by Bach. That popularity further increased, due for example to its inclusion in Walt Disney's Fantasia (in Stokowski's orchestral transcription), until this composition became, by far, the best known work of the eighteenth-century organ repertoire. Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach, also known as 'Dracula's theme' Jump to. I wondered, though, what is it about this piece that people associate with it Halloween, horror, and Dracula? By the mid 1930s, Leonidas Leonardi had published his orchestration, and Alois Melichar's orchestration was recorded in 1939. Sebastian Bach auf das Pianoforte übertragen (BV B 29), Toccata in D moll = D minor = ré mineur (Toccata e fuga), Volume II: Preludes, Fugues, Fantasia and Toccatas, Organ Works 6: Preludes, Toccatas, Fantasias and Fugues II – Early Versions and Variants of I and II, Vol. [10], German organ schools are distinguished into north German (e.g. Parallel octaves and the preponderance of thirds and sixths may be explained by a transcriber's attempt to fill in harmony which, if preserved as is, would be inadequately thin on a pipe organ. [55] Schweitzer's first recording of the piece was issued in 1935. "Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Textkritik bei Incerta" pp. "New light on Bach" in, International Music Score Library Project, https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/2000140449/4892-Toccata, Organ Works BWV 525–771: Recorded Sets of Bach's Complete (or near complete) Organ Works, Bach-Brassin: Piano Transcriptions of Bach's Works by Louis Brassin, Toccata (D moll) für Orgel von Joh. From Hilgenfeldt in 1850, to Elgar in the 1920s, to Basso in the late 1970s, the extraordinary popularity of the piece seems to have taken scholars and musicians by surprise. In the meantime, Williams had written a 1981 article on the authenticity of BWV 565, followed by numerous publications by other scholars on the same topic. "The early works and the heritage of the seventeenth century" in Butt 1997, Marx, Adolf Bernhard (1795-1866), 1833 (score) (can't find this print source on OPAC-RISM catalog). 1 in their sixth volume of Bach's organ works. [97], Before his 1906 Bach biography, André Pirro had already written a book on Bach's organ works. 676: Organ Toccata & Fugue: Pianoforte Solo (Bach, Tausig), Toccata and Fugue in D minor (Stokowski transcription), Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 (9:22), Bach: Toccata in D minor (A Hi-Fi Adventure), CD 2, No. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Dieterich Buxtehude) and south German (e.g. [18], In the 1950s, a recording of Helmut Walcha playing BWV 565 on organ was released. Spitta considered the fugue "particularly suited to the organ, and more especially effective in the pedal part." [138], In 1961, Antony Davies remarked that the Toccata was void of counterpoint. Other commentators ignored the doubts over its authenticity, or considered the attribution issue undecided. [151] In 2000, Mark Argent proposed a scordatura five-stringed cello instead. [47], After 1950, when the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis was published, it was no longer needed to indicate the Toccata and Fugue in D minor as "Peters Vol. [3] In the 21st century, the facsimile became available on-line,[4] as well as various downloadable files of previously-printed editions. Suitable for weddings. Composed by the Baroque maestro Bach, the piece is regarded as being the virtuoso's signature. [84], In Johann Nikolaus Forkel's early 19th century biography of Bach, the work is left unmentioned. The other hypothesis elaborated by Williams is that BWV 565 may have been a transcription of a lost solo violin piece. [158] A version for solo horn was arranged by Zsolt Nagy[159] and has been performed by Frank Lloyd. He considers that the notes of the piece are not too difficult to play, but that an organist performing the work is primarily challenged by interpretation. Toccata en fuga voor orgel BWV.565 in d kl.t. Reconstructions have been applied to several other works by Bach, with variable success. [65] Some musicians, such as Karl Richter, who did not record organ performances very often, included BWV 565 in their anthologies. Stephen A. Crist. Jean Halle. Elgar did not particularly like the work, nor Schweitzer's glowing comments about it. [66] By the end of the century, hundreds of organists had recorded BWV 565. Pirro supposes Bach had success with this music in the smaller German courts he visited. "Bach's Free Organ Works and the 'stylus Phantasticus'" pp. [2][10], The name "Toccata" is most probably a later addition, similar to the title of Toccata, Adagio and Fugue, BWV 564, because in the Baroque era such organ pieces would most commonly be called simply Prelude (Praeludium, etc.) On New Year’s Eve, 1931, New York City audiences entered theaters to watch the third film from … [113] The piece has appeared in many more films, including 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), in which it is played by Captain Nemo on the organ of the Nautilus, before the submarine's pitiless and apparently unmotivated attack on a ship. The piece opens with a toccata section, followed by a fugue that ends in a coda. Note: This tune is not in the NES port of the game. In his autobiographical book written with De Rosa (2019), Morricone wrote that, "The death ritual carried out in a church convinced me to use the Bach quotation and the organ. Until proof of the contrary, BWV 565 should be considered as a work by Johann Sebastian Bach. However, originally it was likely played as church music. Length of the demo's can vary. 120–137. This resolves into a D major chord:[10], Three short passages follow, each reiterating a short motif and doubled at the octave. [21], In 1948, Hermann Keller wrote that the Toccata and Fugue was uncharacteristic for Bach, but nonetheless bore some of his distinguishing marks. Williams, Peter F. (July 1981). [16] Immediately after the final subject entry, the fugue resolves to a sustained B♭ major chord. [1], A wide, and often conflicting, variety of analyses has been published about the piece: for instance, in literature on organ music, it is often described as some sort of program music depicting a storm, while in the context of Disney's Fantasia, it was promoted as absolute music, nothing like program music depicting a storm. Similar in spirit to the popular series of Silly Symphonies, the short film proved costly to produce. Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by Bach tocfuguegh.mid Carniville . [94], In his 1999 Bach biography, Klaus Eidam devotes a few pages to the Toccata and Fugue. 6 that the New Bach Edition prefers to stay close to authoritative early sources for their score presentations. pp. [107] The score of Stokowski's arrangement was published in 1952. 193–211 in Stauffer/May 1986. 4: Toccatas and Fugues / Individual Works – with CD-ROM, Prelude and fugue, E minor, BWV 548; Prelude and fugue, A minor, BWV 551; Prelude and fugue, C major, BWV 547; Toccata and fugue, D minor, BWV 565, BWV 565: Toccata con Fuga in d / Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, "Were Bach's Toccata and Fugue BWV565 and the Ciacconia from BWV1004 Lute Pieces? [10][101], J. S. Bach as Organist, a 1986 collection of essays edited by George Stauffer and Ernest May, discussed the registration Bach would have used for BWV 565. [37] In the words of Jean-Claude Zehnder, who was sympathetic towards the violin version reconstruction: "The matter still remains open, despite the scholarly discourse that began in 1981. [78] Percy Grainger's 1931 recording on the piano, based on the Tausig and Busoni transcriptions, was written out as a score by Leslie Howard, and then recorded by other artists. [86] In Karl Hermann Bitter's 1865 Bach-biography, BWV 565 is only listed in an appendix. 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Later in 1937, while in California, Stokowski and Disney discussed the idea of making a short animated film of The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Dukas for Disney Studios, the intention being to introduce classical music to a younger and broader audience. A single dramatic ground-thought unites the daring passage work of the toccata, that seems to pile up like wave on wave; and in the fugue the intercalated passages in broken chords only serve to make the climax all the more powerful. Johann Sebastian Bach: His Work and Influence on the Music of Germany 1685–1750, Volume 1: Preludes, Toccatas, Fantasias, Fugues, Sonatas, Concertos and Miscellaneous Pieces (BWV 525–598, 802–805 etc.). 375–376, "Assessing Disputed Attributions for Organ Fugues in the J. S. Bach (BWV) Catalogue" Ch. This page was last edited on 1 December 2020, at 16:12. or Prelude and Fugue. He saw more north German characteristics (Buxtehude's restless style) in the form of the Toccata, rather than south German (Pachelbel's simple and quiet approach). [20] Similarly, the album sleeves of Marie-Claire Alain's recordings of BWV 565 in the 1960s, listed the piece in the same font as the other recorded works, but by the 1980s, it was in a larger font. [41] In 1846, C. F. Peters published the Toccata con Fuga as No. According to Miceli (2016), "It is [...] hard to establish what led the composer to quote Bach—perhaps the shared key of D minor led to the idea of the organ, whereas the small church might have at most accommodated nothing more than a run-down harmonium. Organists recording BWV 565 more than once include Jean Guillou,[63] Lionel Rogg[64] and Wolfgang Rübsam. Printed editions of the BWV 565 organ score invariably write the pedal line on a separate stave. This notion inspired a new theory of adaptation: the reconstruction. [6] In his critical commentary for Breitkopf & Härtel's 21st-century revised edition of the score, Jean-Claude Zehnder narrows the time of origin of the manuscript down to around the middle of the first half of the 1730s, based on an analysis of the evolution of Ringk's handwriting. 596–603, "Albert Schweitzer als Organist", pp. [129] Half a decade later, BWV 565 was further questioned. Download and print in PDF or MIDI free sheet music for Toccata And Fugue In D Minor, Bwv 565 by Johann Sebastian Bach arranged by hmscomp for Piano (Solo) The author warns against numerological over-interpretation like that of Volker Gwinner. He gives tips on how to perform the work so that it does not sound like a "meaningless scramble". Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565, two-part musical composition for organ, probably written before 1708, by Johann Sebastian Bach, known for its majestic sound, dramatic authority, and driving rhythm. There are two versions of the song, one that plays during the game's introduction, the other at the map screen. Complete Organ Works: a critico-practical edition in eight volumes provided with a preface containing general observations on the manner of performing the preludes and fugues and suggestions for the interpretation of the compositions contained in each volume, Volume II: Preludes and fugues of the first master period. [37] David Schulenberg feels that the attribution of BWV 565 to Bach is doubtful. [10], The subject of the four-voice fugue is made up entirely of sixteenth notes, with an implied pedal point set against a brief melodic subject that first falls, then rises. 84–94 in, This page was last edited on 14 January 2021, at 19:19. He considers it an early work, probably composed for testing the technical qualities of a new organ. Bro. [140] Roger Bullivant thought the fugue too simple for Bach and saw characteristics that were incompatible with his style:[130], These doubts about the authorship of BWV 565 were elaborated by Peter Williams in a 1981 article. In 1955, E. Power Biggs recorded the Toccata 14 times, played on different European organs, and Columbia issued those recordings on a single album. "On Measuring Musical Style – The Case of Some Disputed Organ Fugues in the J. S. Bach (BWV) Catalogue". [22] Its period of origin has been assumed to have been as early as around 1704,[32] and as late as the 1750s. [49] Dietrich Kilian, the editor of these volumes, explains in the introduction to Vol. [102], Around the same time as Grace made comparisons with an orchestral version in his performance suggestions, Edward Elgar was producing orchestrations of two organ pieces by Bach, which did not include BWV 565. Skill Level: 8 out of 9 Type: Original: Composed by: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 to 1750). Morricone used the trumpet musical theme "La resa dei conti" ("Sixty Seconds to What?") Bach's Organ Works transcribed for Pianoforte Duet, Johann Sebastian Bach. Recording of scary Halloween church organ famous theme (J. S. Bach – “Toccata and Fugue in D Minor”) with big cathedral reverb. Bach scholars like Christoph Wolff defended the attribution to Bach. "Statistik der Concerte im Saale des Gewandhauses zu Leipzig", Stauffer, George B. Scholars differ as to when it was composed. Renowned for its regal and majestic resonance, dramatic command and titular opening motif, this piece reveals the mastery of the performer's "touch" upon the organ's keys through its poignant and swiftly paced arpeggios. In that book he devoted less than a page to BWV 565, and considers it some kind of program music depicting a tempest, including flashes of lightning and rumbling thunder. In this sense, in Ringk's manuscript, the piece is written down in D Dorian mode. It could have been as early as c. 1704. "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" is a famous musical composition for the organ. He sees it as a youth work, composed before 1708, that with its underdeveloped fugue is stylistically eclectic but unified without breaking continuity. ", pp. Toccata and Fugue in D minor.mid Musical Notes Distribution. All in all, he judges the music as superficial, not more than a stepping stone in Bach's development. [13][14] However, the numerous recitative stretches are rarely found in the works of northern composers and may have been inspired by Johann Heinrich Buttstett,[10] a pupil of Pachelbel, whose few surviving free works, particularly his Prelude and Capriccio in D minor, exhibit similar features. S Bach Free MIDI. [44], In the early 1910s, Albert Schweitzer collaborated with Charles-Marie Widor to compile a complete edition of Bach's organ compositions, published by Schirmer. Another piece listed as Bach's was also known as Toccata and Fugue in D minor, and was equally entitled to the "Dorian" qualification. [81][82] From the 1950s to the first decades of the 21st century, there were half a dozen recordings of Tausig's piano version,[83] and several dozen of Busoni's. Description: Toccata and Fugue in D minor in its original form for Church organ but NOT piano. As for the other two, the "Dracula" song is Toccata and fugue in D minor by Johann Sebastian Bach and the nursery rhyme is a popular Swedish version of Baa, baa, black sheep (Bä, bä, vita lamm) composed by Alice Tegnér. Dracula vibes, anyone? [132] Likewise, whether the more elaborate stylistic evidence was considered conclusive or merely circumstantial, depended on who was trying to prove what. Sheet Music bwv 565: Toccata and Fugue in D minor: Organ composed by Bach. 16–20+22–23, "Bachs Toccata und Fuge d-moll für Orgel BWV 565 – ein Cembalowerk? Both versions of the tune have been recorded, the 3 voice version and the PC speaker version. [dubious – discuss], The only extant near-contemporary source for BWV 565 is an undated copy by Johannes Ringk. Those artists lived in an epoch close to Bach, and with my music I decided to look at that kind of past. Download MIDI. [70][71] Many more piano transcriptions of BWV 565 were published, for instance by Louis Brassin,[72][73] Ferruccio Busoni's,[74] Alfred Cortot's, and by Max Reger, in transcriptions for both piano two hands and four hands. [100] The reworked edition of this book, in one volume, appeared in 2003, and devotes more pages to discussing the authenticity and possible prior versions of BWV 565. Volonté's gestures in that sequence reminded me of some paintings of Rembrandt and Vermeer that Leone was fond of. 3 Toccata et Fuga in d BWV 565 (pp. Download Help!. Listen to Toccata & Fugue Halloween Nightmare by The Gruesome Consort on Apple Music. [19][20], As was common practice for German music of the 17th century, the intended registration is not specified, and performers' choices vary from simple solutions such as organo pleno to exceedingly complex ones, like those described by Harvey Grace. For BWV 565 that means staying close to the Ringk manuscript. [4][9], A facsimile of Ringk's manuscript was published in 2000. [Bb G Eb Db A Dm D Gm Am E F] Chords for Toccata And Fugue (Dracula Theme) - Metal Guitar Version - Full HD 1080p with capo transposer, play along with guitar, piano, ukulele & mandolin. Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach, also known as 'Dracula's theme' Another clip from Sunday. [50] In 2010, Breitkopf & Härtel initiated a new edition of Bach's organ works, with BWV 565 appearing in its fourth volume. Keller sees the opening bars' unison passages as "descending like a lightning flash, the long roll of thunder of the broken chords of the full organ, and the stormy undulation of the triplets". Then the music begins to suggest other things to your imagination—oh, just masses of color, or cloud forms, or vague shadows, or geometrical objects floating in space." d. Bach, Toccata and Fugue in d-minor (BWV565) on the entire internet!! [39] Soon the idea was emulated by other musicians. Toccata and Fugue in D minor has become synonymous with the cue: > play ominous sounding music<. [4][5] As far as known, Ringk produced his first copy of a Bach score in 1730 when he was 12. "Bach's Organ Registration Reconsidered" pp. Many parts of the composition are described as typical of Bach. [15], BWV 565 exhibits a typical simplified north German structure with a free opening (toccata), a fugal section (fugue), and a short free closing section. Of Mendelssohn's prophecy that it was something for both the erudite and the masses, only the latter part had been fulfilled. Conclusion of the piece on a minor plagal cadence, A pedal statement of the subject, unaccompanied by other voices, all others, unless the full citation is given in the reference, see, Emans, Reinmar (2004). Spitta had already remarked on the similarity between a passage in BWV 565 and one in the harpsichord Prelude BWV 921, Robert Marshall compares the continuation patterns and sequences of the harpsichord Toccata BWV 911, and the Fugue theme of the harpsichord Toccata BWV 914, with the same of BWV 565. [21][100][129][130] They said it was stylistically too close to the galant style of the later 18th century to be an early 18th century composition. Download free Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D minor / Dracula Themed ringtone or send it at no cost to your cell phone. [123] Shortened to two minutes in length, BWV 565 was used as the introductory theme for the French animation Once Upon a Time... Man, in 26 episodes between 1978 and 1981. [152] In 2005, Eric Lewin Altschuler wrote that if the first version of BWV 565 was written for a stringed instrument the most likely candidate would have been a lute. The piece is perhaps most widely known by its appearance in the opening minutes of the 1940 [67] In the 21st century, several recordings of BWV 565 became available online, such as a recording included in James Kibbie's Bach Organ Works project. To a large extent, the piece conforms to the characteristics deemed typical of the north German organ school of the Baroque era with divergent stylistic influences, such as south German characteristics. That makes it the top MP3 download (as far as I can tell) of the J.S. Stream songs including "Toccata and Fugue In D Minor, BWV 565", "Fire Frenzy Freaks" and more. 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He feels it may be within reach of everyone but is neither an incantation, nor ridden with symbolism and even less a sum of whatever. [10] Statistical analysis conducted by Peter van Kranenburg, in the second half of the first decade of the 21st century, confirmed the Fugue was atypical for Bach,[136] but failed to find a composer more likely to have composed it than Bach. [45] In 1912, BWV 565 was published in the second volume, containing works of Bach's "first master period". [11] Ringk's copy abounds in Italian tempo markings, fermatas (a characteristic feature of Ringk's copies) and staccato dots, all very unusual features for pre–1740 German music. Despite Mendelssohn's opinion that it was "at the same time learned and something for the people",[23] followed by a fairly successful piano transcription in the second half of the 19th century,[24] it was not until the 20th century that it rose above the average notability of an organ piece by Bach. Williams questions the authenticity of the piece, based on its various unusual features, and elaborates the idea that the piece may have a violin version ancestor. 5. The concert was very well received by the critics, among them Robert Schumann, who admired the work's famous opening as an example of Bach's sense of humor. Scholars differ as to when it was composed. However, that was about to change. The first section of the piece, the Toccata, takes somewhat less than a third of the total performance time. Wolff calls it a pseudo-problem. [103], In 1927, Leopold Stokowski recorded his orchestration of BWV 565 with the Philadelphia Orchestra. The Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565, is a piece of organ music written, according to its oldest extant sources, by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750). The Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565, is a piece of organ music written, according to its oldest extant sources, by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750). "On Measuring Musical Style – The Case of Some Disputed Organ Fugues in the J. S. Bach (BWV) Catalogue" Ch. [2] There are some errors in the score such as note values not adding up to fill a measure correctly. [141][142] Several essays in John Butt's Cambridge Companion on Bach discuss the attribution problems of BWV 565. In that edition he indicates the work as "well-known". Ring tone uploaded by alley2446. [92] After listing several organ works in which Bach showed himself a pupil of Buxtehude, Frescobaldi, and various contemporary Italian composers, Schweitzer describes the Toccata and Fugue in D minor as a work in which the composer rises to independent mastery:.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 40px}.mw-parser-output .templatequote .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;padding-left:1.6em;margin-top:0}, In the D minor toccata and fugue, the strong and ardent spirit has finally realised the laws of form. 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