Prelude and Fugue No. 1 in C major, BWV 846, from Bach's Well-tempered Clavier, Gulda pianist
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- Prelude and Fugue No. 1 in C major, BWV 846, from the Well-tempered Clavier by Johann Sebastian Bach. Played by Friedrich Gulda; recorded 1972, MPS-Tonstudio, Villingen, Germany.
When Carl Sagan asked biologist and author Lewis Thomas what music to include in the Golden Disk to be sent out to space Thomas replied: "I would send the
complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach. But that would be boasting."
That fugue. It starts off so simple. Just one melody. Then it splits off into two, then three, and then I'm smiling because that is what Bach does best - hide his genius behind simplicity. Before you know it he's got 3 uniquely different melodies going on at the same time, with only two hands, and all in perfect harmony. It is then that you should understand why Bach is the master.
Indeed. Bach is immortal. His genius is positively unsurpassed.
I'm totaly agree with you
It's very similar to his Invention I in that it evolves from a singular melody, first the treble clef, then the bass, and then both together.
literally the definition of fugue lol
You are right, but this fugue has 4 voices, not 3 :)
Gulda is a true pianist! He truly do his best work everyday!!
I feel he living now, and shining like big stars on heaven...
It's as if I knew every note a split second before I heard it. It's life's biggest mystery. How did a man hundreds of years ago be able to speak to the very souls of countless millions of people to come?
this makes me so happy, this music and the beautiful sound
Sometimes one can be happy to be sad.
Mia Price Hello, i'm playing the prelude on my UA-cam channel, check it if you want :)
Harley's Piano Channel Fuck off.
funnyguy3D
You are really a funny guy, aren't you ?
Im just learning piano and this is my first piece I am learning. I love this version
Agreed, I recently finished this piece and this is my first piece I've ever played on the piano.
Andrew Webster yeah but stay away from fugue ! ahah
Alessandro Sandro My piano teacher surprised me by following up the prelude with the fugue, after I'd only been playing piano for about a month! Been trying it for months now. I think she must be crazy...
Andrew Webster Hello, i'm playing this beautiful prelude on my channel, check it if you have time :D
After 8 years of practicing, I was able to learn the prelude in 1.5 hours. But the fugue...
WOW! So brilliant. How can there be 10 dislikes...? Weird.
Per-Olov
To quote Depeche Mode: "People are people..."
Dislike bots
Missclicks i believe Sir
I signed in to my UA-cam account, just to give this heavenly masterpiece a like ... I wish i can give it more ... Make me wanna cry without no why ! i'm not sad, not happy, just feel like my soul flying like a butterfly in another dimension...
I love this wonderful prelude from Bach - a wonderful performance... - thank you for this great moment - greetings Hella
This song is one of those that gives life luster, Bach is my hero, there will truly never be another one
I made a mistake today, I scrolled down to the comment section of this video. I should have just closed my eyes and enjoyed the music and block out the anger and hate shown in the comment section of this video.
cjwonderstruck25 Agreed xD
Im really lost as to how people think one composer's music is related to the existence of God....
Let's not start another argument shall we. It's all based on peoples opinions.
***** hahahahaha :)
cjwonderstruck25 Thanks for the warning ^^ I usually read the comments of a UA-cam video but after reading your comment I decided not to.
Such a beautiful piece. It starts of so simple too. Great way to start or end a busy day to give peace and clarity to the mind, body and soul.
i just cant listen to it without being touched. im emotional. i cry when i hear such music like this famished piece.
Me too........;-;
Quite simply, bach got as close to perfection as any of us are ever going to get, in my opinion. This really is beautiful
In the clouds , where the angels sing , where I wanna be
And her smile is all I see
She knows I need her loving
She knows I need her touching
She plays with my heart and emotion
I give her my love and devotion.
Zayn malik based his song BLUE from is album MiNd Of MiNe on this incredible master piece.
Was waitin for this comment
He should make more songs like this... Blue was a masterpiece
I simply can't thank you enough! I've been searching all over UA-cam for Friederich Gulda's version, and I've finally found it! (By some reason it didn't come up as the number one result when I searched it) And you seem to have quite alot more of Bach laying around, thank you SO MUCH for sharing!
We spent two weeks analyzing the prelude portion in my high school theory class. I was completely enraptured by the simultaneous simplicity and complexity of the work. It sounds like a never-ending melody.
I find it so hard to believe that people say that Bach is boring. How can music so beautiful POSSIBLY bore anyone?
Bach's music isn't just music; it's life. Thank you so much for the high-quality recording!
Absolutely true
This was a piano piece regularly played for morning assembly at my old school UGSB
Das Lied ist so beruhigend 😊
I am 65 and a writer and i love rap - what a talent these young people have! Eminem and 2 Pac are brilliant !
Beautiful, relaxing, yet something so deep and such sadness must have been felt in this prelude... I cry oh too often at this... When I don't cry to it, I fall asleep to it.. 😭
There's Bach, and then there's everyone else.....
this piece is a prelude to love for music: ua-cam.com/video/XxYzLqNZMs4/v-deo.html
@Mathews196 Indeed
Someone hasn’t listened to Debussy and Chopin it seems 🥲
@@westcoastflaneur Hmm, well they are one the greatest composers but Top 3? Nahh, they can't hold the places, only Bach, Mozart, Beethoven deserve too😊
@@babygirl4169 not for me lol
Great composers for common society, but their music is similar to Picasso’s art or Hemingway’s writing. I find it overrated 🥲
If a third were to be on my list, besides Debussy and Chopin, it would be Ravi Shankar from the 20th Century 🥃
This piece puts me in mind of the greatest love I have ever known...
I never noticed how interesting this song was before.
bach made a special place in my heart. Truly enjoyed the piece ♡~
Fugue at 02:08.
Thanks Beethoven
my man bethoven putting the time stamp of the drop in the comments
This song!!! The Mortal Instruments-City of Bones!!! Jaceeee!!!!!!!!!
Yeeee
This video shows very well how Bach has to be played: not very importance given to the speed, but a very strict and quite scientific rigour. I suggest to hear it to all young players and to consider it as a manifesto of the good studying of this wonderful musician. Very good the way to bring out the four voices in the fugue.
This is beautiful, and I am one of those who enjoy. it is rarely to listen to a piano with such a sound.
I have to learn this for an audition and the fugue is DESTROYING ME.
LJ Jag I am too for an undergraduate audition. where are you auditioning
LJ Jag I'm using this as an audition piece as well! Mostly cause the prelude is cake, but the fugue is another story! 😝 I'm having fun learning it, but I'm also stressing a bit. Good luck at your audition!
My piano teacher is making me learn this...
Is this RCM grade 9 ?
@@Jashan-lm7cr RCM 10
Bravo my friend, is sure to be one of the icons in the history of classical music in the future, will be in history books and being cited and praised by critics of literature.
love this piece, i heard it in my Bach collection and remembered hearing it in the mentalist.
This is my favorite of all renditions. Appreciate the nonuse of pedal. Prefer this tempo. Clarity
I changed completely the way I play this prelude after hearing this rendition
Such a lovely prelude
+rotem ruso Get a shirt
+Snake_XIX get rekt m8
***** no
***** It was just some friendly fashion advice from one dude to another
I like this comment a lot. In general I see and say things similarily.
C-C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER! this, is a piece or trollistery at its max. congrats sir or ma'am you won the internet.
The song is very good. i play it myself. it feels... comforting
Yes lucky for us mortals, Bach composed this beauty with such simplicity. Sounded good playing slower too, as long as you clear you mind and immersed in it.
When I close my eyes while listening to this masterpiece I always relive me walking through Rome - the greatest time of my life ... ...
in your life... yet !
Beautiful soul
This is best Soul music track ever made. Period
I certainly works for my soul Jean
@@georgealderson4424 hits me everytime:)
Anyone here from HowToBasic's video "How to make a cream pie"? No? Just me? Ok, **Leaves**
WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm naming my first child a C name. And then "Mommy where did my name come from?" And I'll just pull up UA-cam and show them this song.
did you do it?
:Ave Maria
Prelude - 00:00
Fugue - 02:07
This song takes me back to late 2017, how young and how I took things for granted. I made mistakes then, and I had a friend named Beth, and I remember towards the end of our friendship, I was angered with them, angered with how much lack of respect they had for themselves, angered how selfish they were… it’s 2024, my lens have changed so much, if only I can have one more conversation with her, and get to know why… if only.
My first memory as a child at age 5 is from coming to tears to this piece.
I wonder how many others had the same or similar experiences that marked their lives forever?
I used to listen to a disc that had a bunch of calm instruments tones on it. I just thought of it while sleeping and searched through my shelf and found the case and the song name. Good to hear it again after all these years. 13 I believe. 16 now.
So beautiful melody I love it.
Don't underestimate its popularity. Never underestimate the power of Baroque, especially when it comes to our old friend JSB.
I used to be able to play this. It really has it all.
A great piece of music and easy to learn on the piano. As with most of Bach's music, the finger movements are very natural and the music flows nicely. A simple but excellent example of Bach's creativity.
I really enjoy playing this, has too many emotions... simple but cool. I like this piece.
Nigga Bach in the hood
xD
Christopher Johnson
how in the world did you end up here?
Horsedick.MPEG Hello i'm playing this prelude on my channel, check it if you have time
Harley's Piano Channel fuck off.
So breathtakingly beautiful! :* I want to cry :(((( :*
Tiger Tiger
Burning bright
+Marija Mateja Into the forest of the night.
+Tvde1 but please go the fuck to sleep tonight
+Tvde1 Hi guys. What's happening here?
+askmeifi'mjacknoff It is a reference to The Mentalist. Bach's prelude No. 1 in C-Major is Red John's favorite musical piece.
This makes me so so happy
wow serious? Dont look to the comments just listen!
Agreed. My piano teacher gave me this piece and I never liked it until I heard it on a tv show during a great scene and thought "This is really beautiful". I'm now trying to learn it again, so how can it be a bad thing if it made me appreciate the music?
Where are all the hate comments people are talking about?
Probably deleted or reported or both
This gives peace to my soul... VIVA BACH !
what is it about this that brings a bitter cynic such as myself to tears??...absolutely amazing....
It's simply genuine. People who follow something they enjoy instead of letting the world tell them "the way" usually have such effects on others.
Tyler Durden! not making soap anymore? Glad to find you taking time of from "the Club" to listen to some righteous tunes!
Gulda! what a fantastic artist
Who else came here from The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones movie? Lol
holy f. i was watching it online (oops) i was at the beginning just about five minutes ago then it froze and i decided to play some piano waiting it to contuniue. i remembered this song out of nowhere and wanted to listen and now i read your comment. i havent heard it in the movie -i have watched the first 15 minutes yet- so how the hell i thought about this piece? weird. (well after writing this, it doesnt seem like a big thing at all. anyway :D)
Lol I did
Outer Limits: The Sixth Finger. 1963, with David McCallum playing Bach.
From my point of view as a Piano Student, this is the best recording of PRALUDIUM UND FUGE in C-Dur, BWV 846 from WOLL TEMPERITER KLAVIER, Volume 1.
From Lima City, PERU.
Of course, a very popular "AVE MARIA" is often sung over this prelude.
not really
Yes - Gounod loved it so much he used it as the basis for his Ave Maria.
Peter Clare
Right, only a few people seem to know it , most people think Schubert composed ave maria but that's bullshit if course
Marty Brynildsen No wonder it sounded familiar to me.
Marty Brynildsen No wonder it sounded familiar to me.
una melodia così semplice...ma che ha molto da dire.. bella, magnifica , stupenda, nemmeno queste parole sono in grado di descrivere la sua bellezza...non esistono parole per descriverla...
I am an atheist, though I believe in the trinity: Bach, Gulda and his piano
***** i'm atheist too and i respect more religion than some churchgoer
Im agnostic, but it is getting really irritated to see atheists shoving their belief on every comments.
***** Religion is faith-based, which means that it lacks self-criticism, same as the Confucianist system or Maoism for example. Each of them simply must be dangerous because the one can do wrong, thinking that he must be right. Each "the only true", not self-critical system prooved many times in history that it is dangerous and able to destroy numerous valuable people, books and works of art. For Maoism, Stalinism or Nazism, I don't have to tell what it was. For the Confucianism it was making state adjustment impossible. For Christianity, it was burning Serapejon, destruction of Plato's Academy and it's philosophers banishment, death sentences for "heresy", religious wars of the modern era (St. Bartholomew's Day massacre for example), putting books to the List of Prohibited Books, or burning them (over 10 000 per day at times of pope Paul IVth). Today, the ISIS for example- somebody did effort to teach them some religion, but didin't do any effort to teach them that they can be wrong. That's the problem, lack of self-criticism.
Of course I made an extremely simplified description, I suggest to study and understand the problem for yourself. I always try to understand the opposing party.
Piotr Malewski you don't have to do right Jesus gave us the choice of right or wrong it's just common sense like if you do bad in life you will go to jail but if your good then you are gunna have a good future it's the same as heaven or hell if you do bad your going to hell but if you do good then heaven is on its way for you so you can't sit there and bash on religions cause you never see us bashing on whatever you guys believe
Juan Rodriguez 1st: do you really think that i do not know even basic claims of your religion? 2nd: I see you guys bashing on everything that disagrees with you all the time, and If you read what I wrote earlier, you would know, that history saw that many times before too. I don't say that you force anyone to believe in what you believe, though you show lack of respect, posting an answer in which you talk to me, like to someone who has no education at all. 3rd, I'm not bashing, I'm telling facts as an answer: explaining point of view. In fact, your faith in Jesus is FAITH, you can read again my previous post and figure out the danger.
I love this. So much.
Love this something sad yet beautiful
Some classics are always nice :D
I like to share a quote from the great violinist Midori Goto - "Bach clears the mind, Bach is a wonderful teacher, I learned so much from Bach..." So more than 260 years posthumous, Bach is still teaching us through his music. Bach is a staple for many aspiring musicians being taught world-wide. Regardless you play piano, violin, guitar, or most other instrument, you can learn a great deal from Bach. This people, is the genius of Bach.
My piano teacher made use of this recording for her instruction on the performance of the fugue.
Ah, beautiful baroque.
Oh my gosh I'm in love with a piano song for the first time...
Bach is a beast...The best ever with mozart
Why so I keep on swing these offending comments here? Music is the best language and this language can be spoken in different ways. Why can't we just appreciate what JSB composed here and applause for him? :) peace.
I came from The Mentalist.
Red John :)
Who didn't?
me too:D
I love how slow he plays the fugue; very refreshing...
Can you people stop ruining this with comments about how stupid tv shows brought you here? Are there no longer people who simply appreciate real music? Must everything be a reference from some mind numblingly stupid mass multimedia? Can we simply appreciate Bach's music??? Modern society irks me so; I sometimes wish I were born in a completely different era.
Eternal masterpiece.
Thank you!!! Beautiful post
beautiful so beautiful made a tear stream down my face :'( #sad #crying #bachwasashadowhunter #ayyyyy
The beautiful longing, meandering, jazzy prelude is beyond words.
beautiful.. so relaxing. thank you
jfc these comments.... just because I'm an atheist doesn't mean I can't enjoy amazing music.
***** Bach was devoted to the creator. His music illustrates this. dominus Omnipitus Maximus. To God most great most high.
Beautiful!
😭😭i always cried to this beautiful music
Simple and beautiful :)
Close your eyes and picture jace not screwing up this song....
"just chords" like music is "just notes" Bach was a master of his instrument, if composing was as easy as you suggest then Bach would not be held in such high regard by pianists.
Tiger Tiger. :)
mentalist
***** Yes, they played this in one, specific scene that I honestly can't remember.
But yes, Fur Elise is also played more often as a backdrop for certain montages.
***** burning bright, in the forest of the night.
now it's 26 keep on killin john!
Beautiful music
Bach is my fav!!
so relaxing THIS is life
bajackieba it definitely is
This is one of those pieces that you think "Yeah! I can play that" so JSB says (in German of course) "OK Clever Clogs, try THIS then come back if you still want to play!"
Perfection
So beautiful
Red John
where is jane?
I love this, I have it set as my alarm on my N95 :)
***** Why must you try and bring your squabbling myths and beliefs into something so masterful and universally beautiful. Just shut up and enjoy the song.
Bach clearly sought the divine and Christ in his music. That you would attempt to separate a man and his work from faith shows a level of shallowness I find puzzling.
this is so beautiful!
Red John theme :)
+ZloyNord Thank you, I wondered like almost a whole day where have I heard it. I had a thought it was from the mentalist but couldn't remember from where. That blind girl used to play it...
+Kyzecxxx me too, relaxed now
+Zloy Nord i think we all here because of red john =DD
Most of J.S. Bach's works would be described by Bach himself as a product of divine inspiration. It's doubtful the master would have called this particular piece such. But, truly wonderful artworks of every description have been and should rightly be attributed to the artist's belief. Look at the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. It was painted by an atheist, but still inspired by belief in a god. Proof that even divine inspiration is not proof of a divinity. It's only proof of inspiration.