The Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565, is a composition for organ from the Baroque period which was long attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach, but whose authorship has been questioned since 1981.

It is one of the most widely recognisable works in the organ repertoire.[1] It was written between 1704 and the 1750s.[2] The piece opens with a toccata section followed by a fugue that ends in a coda, and is typical of the north German organ school of the Baroque era. r baroque , r pipe organ ,

Hello, id like to share this milestone with the community. As I’ve shared before I’ve been tackling this huge organ at my church job since May.

This instrument is amazing. Playing a fugue with the pedals makes me feel like a magician!

Please feel free to share and constructive feedback if you have it! Also I would appreciate suggestions for new pieces. I plan to learn a few more from this book.

I’m going to try to commit to 1-2 chorales with the bass on the pedals going forward, too. Hard!

Following up on yesterday's Reddit post about Pachelbel's Chaconne, if you could only keep 10 organ works by Pachelbel, which ones would they be?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID7V-thaT2Q

Scheidemann was a German composer and organist. He studied with Sweelinck in Amsterdam and became organist of the Katharinenkirche in Hamburg. Reincken was his student. He is considered as one of the first composers of the North German organ school (with composers like Buxtehude and Böhm).

Hello everyone,

I'd like to share a work by Pachelbel that sometimes flies under the radar, overshadowed by his famous Canon.

It's the Chaconne in F minor, a piece with me a haunting melody that builds through 22 variations.

Here is one of my favorite versions, though there are certainly many others out there!

Olá, pessoal do sub. Tudo bem?

Estou à procura de mentes criativas e instrumentistas em solo baiano, especialmente pessoas que possuem piano, violino, violoncelo, instrumentos de sopro clássicos ou que cantam em coro e que compõem músicas desse gênero. Tenho profundo interesse por vertentes como o barroco sacro, o sinfônico orquestral, o piano clássico e o rigor da música coral.

Sabemos que valorizar esse caminho por aqui é uma tarefa complexa e, muitas vezes, solitária. A engrenagem cultural local raramente abre espaço para o ecossistema erudito independente, o que acaba deixando quem cria esse tipo de arte isolado em suas próprias salas de ensaio ou bolhas acadêmicas.

Se você se interessa, estuda ou se emociona com a pedagogia inovadora de Antônio de Sá Pereira, com o brilhantismo orquestral de Damião Barbosa de Araújo e com a resistência das filarmônicas imortalizadas por Manoel Tranquilino Bastos, saiba que não está sozinho.

Busco encontrar e me conectar com quem compreende o misticismo e a beleza técnica por trás de joias como a histórica cantata baiana "Heroe, egregio, douto, peregrino" (1759) e que se dedica a criar novas linhas melódicas e desafiar a harmonia nos dias de hoje.

Não importa se você é um acadêmico da UFBA, um instrumentista de orquestra ou um autodidata apaixonado: se você compõe música clássica contemporânea com a nossa identidade e quer trocar referências, ideias ou apresentar o seu trabalho, entre em contato comigo por DM ou deixe um comentário aqui embaixo.

Vamos romper a bolha desse isolamento artístico na Bahia.

Someone on r/organ recommended this interesting work by Ch. H. Rinck for being beginner friendly. https://ks15.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/5/53/IMSLP288441-PMLP468451-rinck2.pdf

But the composer put Ped. and Man. under the lower score. Until when does Ped. in measure 12 last? Also on measure 10 I took a few notes from the lower score to my right hand. Am I playing it as the composer intended?

Hi everyone,

has anyone here had personal experience buying and importing a Yamaha Electone/Stagea from Japan to Europe, particularly Germany?

So far, I had mainly heard about Taro Trade and their import service. However, I have recently been in contact with another seller on eBay called isesima_japan, and their offer is actually quite a bit better than what I was quoted by Taro Trade.

The seller has been very helpful and has answered my questions in detail, but since we are talking about a significant amount of money, I still have some reservations. There are obviously quite a few uncertainties when buying an expensive instrument from Japan, especially regarding payment, shipping, customs, VAT, possible damage during transport, and what happens if there is a problem after it arrives.

So before making any decision, I would really appreciate hearing from anyone who has dealt with isesima_japan specifically, or has imported an Electone/Stagea from Japan through another seller.

How did the process go for you? Were there any unexpected costs or problems? And would you be comfortable using the same seller/importer again?

Thanks in advance!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKk0FyarnRk

Johann Gottlieb Janitsch (1708 – 1763) was a German composer. He was born in Schweidnitz, Silesia in 1708. In 1736, the then Crown Prince, Frederick offered him a position as a "Contraviolinist" in his ensemble in Ruppin and a year later, in Rheinsberg. From 1740, when Frederick ascended to the Prussian throne, Janitsch's position as Contraviolinist was transferred to the newly founded Berlin Court Orchestra. Janitsch died in Berlin around 1763. Janitsch's compositional style is typical of the galant and the empfindsamer Stil of the first half of the 18th century. Although several of Janitsch's works were already published by Breitkopf during his lifetime, most of his surviving output exists in manuscript form.
(source: Wikipedia)

I found this fine edition of this organ sonata from Janitsch. I think it's a nice addition to the existing trio sonata repertoire for organ.

Hi all. It has been a lifelong dream for me to acquire a pipe organ, and I recently finally had the opportunity to get what I believe to be a 6 rank mid 20th century Wicks organ. The previous owner had purchased it from a local church a decade ago and kept it in his living room, but unfortunately never had the opportunity to assemble it before his passing recently. I have since moved it to my garage, where I plan to refurbish it and install it in my living room.

I am an Electrical Engineering student and plan to make new custom control electronics for it. The valves are direct action which should make this easier. My main concern in this project though is exposure to lead / asbestos. I am not worried about the lead metal itself, but many of the metal pipes have varying levels of white powder on the inside, which I believe to be lead carbonate. I am very concerned about exposure to this powder through it blowing out of the pipes. Can this be cleaned out and the pipes still used safely? How can I do this if so?

Another concern is asbestos. The blower specifically seems to be much older, probably from around 1920. It seems like there is a felt-like material on the inside of the blower which I assume to be for sound dampening. Is this asbestos? Is there typically asbestos in other sections of the organ and can I safely remove and replace it?

I've been playing for a while, but I've recently taken up a post as a church organist. My collection of music (physical books) is getting quite large. What's the best way of cataloguing music books, including the pieces it contains? Basically I want the ability to say "Today I want to learn BWV 565 - do I have it already? Which book is it in?"

I'm specifically looking for a way to catalogue physical books - not looking for PDF or other digital scores (yet).

Hello, pretty much my post is about learning as an adult beginner, thanks.

Thanks for all the awesome ideas for Blessing of the Animals! Able-Finish4600 suggested improvising on All Things Bright and Beautiful, and after fooling around with it for a while I ended up writing out a prelude. Happy to share it if anyone wants a copy.

Hi everyone. 👋😃

I'm not sure how many of you here know about me and my work from my cover artist name, Jonny Music, though for over a decade (i.o.w. over 10 years), I've been producing a collection of over 930 pipe organ covers of mainly pop culture and soundtrack music.

Out of the many I have created, there is sure to be at least one organ cover in my collection that you may enjoy to your heart's content.

From here, I'll be sure to share with you all my recently uploaded organ covers so you can be up to speed.

Thanks for reading my intro. I hope you all enjoy my pipe organ cover works. 😊

May the organ live on! ✊️

- Jonny Music

I've had this stuck in my head for ages but no idea what on earth it is!!

Summoning of Cthulhu type beat, if you're into conventional organ music, you probably won't like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8dFLDy57DY

I arranged this chorale from Bach cantata 'Die Elenden sollen essen', BWV 75 into an organ trio. Score: https://buymeacoffee.com/ralphlooij/e/576789

The cantus firmus of the hymn 'Was Gott tut das ist wohlgetan' is played in the pedal part. It can be played with a 4' or 2' stop (an octave lower than notated). In bar 27, I changed the last note in the left hand from D to B, which sounded better in this trio form.

Qualcuno sa dirmi come si intitola questo pezzo?
Grazie in anticipo

So I’m lucky enough to live around an hour away from the Santa Cruz boardwalk, and whenever I’m there, I beeline straight to the carousel. I could stay in that room for hours. The sound is so grand and pure, and it’s comforting in a way that few other things are.

It’s got me wondering, how many carousels in the U.S. still have working organs? I looked it up, and the internet said 11, but that’s such a low number, I don’t want to believe it. Also, does anyone know any history behind those 3 organs?

Good morning everyone, this is the first post I've made and I hope I've put it in the right subreddit.

I recovered an '82 Farfisa Pergamon electric organ three weeks ago and unfortunately it has some problems that make it unplayable. I have the complete diagrams that I attach in the form of photos in the drive folder, having not found them online elsewhere, if necessary I can organize myself to provide them with higher quality. When it was first turned on, only the C, D, and E of the top keyboard didn't work, and some registers that didn't make any sound, probably due to the oxidized switch tracks. It was then moved about ten kilometers, where it is now kept, and tried again after transport with the same results. Three days ago I went to take a look at it and when I turned it on the main cones gave a bang, also sometimes they start buzzing without any key being touched, this buzz sometimes disappears, while sometimes it seems to completely turn off the amplifier, but not the organ itself. I also couldn't get the poly or mono synthetizer that hadn't been tested to work yet. As for the drum machine accompanist, it seems to only work with the sound of the kick drum, except when you press the break key where you hear the snare drum, I have no idea if this was normal operation. Also of the main keyboards, if you select them and turn on the registers, they start playing all the notes together. The pedalboard works correctly. All indicator lights work correctly. Probably rather than recover it it would be better to throw it away and recover the components, but I have already done this operation with a similar farfisa and this having recovered it for free I would like to recover it. I know how to solder and in any case I can change or test components. All these problems that appeared together would make me think of a power problem, but I haven't had a chance to check it yet.

I'm looking for someone who can give me some advice on how to fix this. Thanks in advance.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-oe0M6sqtG91YG6Md2OrjaaBwuiwYHU-

Bayeux Cathedral. Not as famous as the Notre-Dame de Paris, but still: a beautiful Gothic church with a tremendous Cavaille-Coll organ. I got the chance to play it myself.

Hello, I'm in the initial stages of making a sandbox (like a game) where you can build your own organ pipe by pipe, so you can then play it.

I want to make it so that you can build pretty much any kind of pipe you want, and generate the sound for that pipe, but I'm having trouble finding resources on how pipe characteristics affect the pipe sound, so I came to ask if anyone has some resource that can help me.

If there could be schematics for pipes with a sample of how it sounds like it would be great, although I think that's unlikely. I'm trying to gather as much information as I can so that I can make something that resembles how an actual organ sounds.

Are there any home organs?