J.S. Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565
Вставка
- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor BWV 565 played by organist Hans-André Stamm on the Trost-Organ of the Stadtkirche in Waltershausen, Germany.
Toccata et fugue en ré mineur BWV 565 de Johann Sebastian Bach, interprété par Hans-André Stamm sur l'orgue Trost de la Stadtkirche, à Waltershausen, Allemagne.
To those complaining that the pitch is off ... this Trost organ was built in 1730 when Bach was very much active as a composer. There was NO pitch standard across Europe at that time, and even the organ in the adjacent village might be tuned differently. The tuning "standard" of A = 440 Hz is a MODERN convention ... this organ is actually tuned at A = 466.8 Hz. Mr. Stamm is being absolutely AUTHENTIC. Stop criticizing this amazing organ!
theholomorphicfunction But it’s played higher, not lower.
Thank you for your lucid explanation.
Also, J.S Bach often wrote songs in the key of the letters of his name BACH. There is no key of H now, but music changes.
Utter nonsense. The pitch of Mr Stamm's, ahem, organ is clearly off by 2 octaves and a cheesy quaver.
I like it because its in a different key....
When I was young I used to think this piece would never end.
Now I think it is too short.
Cool
Equally true with music as it is with life.
Definitely agree
classical music is an acquired taste. You need some "training" before you can appreciate it.
👍🏿
If this guy doesn't come to my funeral, I'm not coming either
I have no words...
I want him at my wedding
Bruhhhhh
@@neanektari same for me
I’ll be so happy if I can hear his playing
This is perhaps the most iconic piece ever composed for the organ!
My dad used to perform this for me on every important event in my life - when I was christened, at my confirmation, wedding, my daughter's christening. That was the last time he played it to me on church organ (he was the organist there). I had it played on his funeral, that was the last time I heard it life, but it was absolutely not the same. A family tradition that died when he passed away. The most important piece of music in my life.
That's absolutely incredible! You were very lucky to have a father capable of doing that, he must've been a great person and I hope he's sleeping peacefully now.
@@scrat3695 I am absolutely sure. My mum joined him after two years, in 2020. Nowthey are happily together again. I am equalky sure that he enjoys playing the big heavenky organ and has pleasant conversations with Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Richard Wagner - and maybe some other gentlemen of the musical universe.
RIP
this story made me cry.. may he rest in peace
That’s beautiful man. I hope your ok.
For those who comment on his lack of expression, has it occurred to you how much concentration is required to play on 3 levels , while maneuvering the pedals as well
Firstly that, and second, if a musician is into his instrument, his expression (or lack of it) is weird anyway. Cheers! :)
Playing the organ is like playing the piano and tap dancing like Fred Astaire in Top Hat AT THE SAME TIME. No wonder the man’s fácil is locked in concentration.
That's not the expression of a man whose deep in concentration, that's the expression of a man who's bored af playing Bach for the millionth time 🤣
~TLDR~ Trust me, this man has been playing the pipe organ since he was 7 and started composing at age 25, they recorded this when he was 42, see his face when he's playing his own music on his UA-cam channel ;P
This renowned organist and composer started studying/playing piano and the pipe organ when he was 7 and recorded his first track at 13. He began writing and composing his own organ, chamber, and orchestral music in 1983 (when he was 25). This video was recorded near the end of 2000 (when he was 42) as part of a DVD series featuring "the most beloved of Johann Sebastian Bach's organ pieces" which means he was asked to play all the well-known and most popular Bach works which he had already been playing for years before this. I mean just look at how he rocks out when he's playing his own music that he composed: ua-cam.com/video/vPyPx8_QTVQ/v-deo.html lol
@@chi11estpanda Then may be he shouldn't have recorded it all? The version of this composition in the channel Netherlands Bach Society is better than this by a million degree. I know he doesn't care whether we like it or not, but it is sad to see such a reputed person playing such a composition rather poorly. 30 seconds into the Toccata and I am bored.
@@insearchofpeace2151 You seemed to have mistaken my joust of comedic remark to infer displeasure with the work of monsieur Hans-André Stamm, please do not be mistaken as I only mean to folly in the comments of his facial expression. I have listened to the rendition which you speak of, presumably the one here ua-cam.com/video/Pi0IuyTS_ic/v-deo.html and I have listen to them in succession as well as side by side, playing simultaneously, and with the exception of a few rests and half notes, their interpretations are are only mildy different if at all. While I may find the rendition you have suggestion slightly more pleasant, I believe that's simply the biproduct of a difference in the organs themselves between the Arp Schnitger Organ in the Martinikerk at Groningen vs. the Trost organ of Waltershausen, just a brief look at their dispositions and one can immediately identify the variance in sound production not to mention the location of each one's recording is has signficant differences in accoustics, with the former having a reverb of 6 seconds vs the latter having 2.5 seconds in terms of reverberation . It is like saying that that the sound of pianist A on a grand piano sounds better by a millionth degree than pianist B playing on an upgright piano and saying therefore pianist B plays the composition poorly.
My dream is to buy a castle just so i can have an organ installed in the basement and play this when my guests enter
With a name like that I wouldnt even dare to push the button at the gates....
No you should put it at the top of your grand staircase
I AM FREAKED OUT RIGHT NOW.....
They bleed in terror!
Let your dreams come true! Wishful thinking actually goes a long way towards success, measured by whatever degree/unit of measure you choose.
Mozart: -- I'm the most mathematically complex soloist!
Bach: -- Can't beat my bassline, grandson.
real
Musikalisches Opfer can be played forwards and backwards, that still blows my mind.
He plays with both hands and both feet on five separate keyboards at the same time. I sneeze and drop my cup of coffee.
yea i read that as "i sneezed a drop into my cup of coffee" and now im traumatized
I don't have such good aim either
😄🤣😅
I can't even walk past a door threshold in my house without banging my little toe on it
I am laughing so hard, I cannot stop! Thanks, I needed this today!
Bach the immortal. 267 years later he still lives.
He never died, he just turned into music.
Two young people playing Bach.. it's so good to see! Bach is the soul of the music, we cannot lose this tradition.
ua-cam.com/video/Yqhx1WOnw8o/v-deo.html
Yeah, too bad he didn't write this... :-)
The organist's name is Hans-Andre Stamm. He was 52 years old when this was uploaded - he was born in 1958. Now he is 63 (obviously).
Os imaginarías,lo que tenia que sentir, la gente en sus tiempos escuchando esto? Casi 300 años. Sentados en la Iglesia.
This dude was in the zone for 8 straight minutes. Also what an insanely great organ plus that architecture. Wow
Yes 👍🏿
In the zone?
@@ofilosofoouumfumante5655 eita bixo
@@raiksan1791 sexo?
Exactly. Everything down to the keys and matching cufflinks. This guys entire body and hands were long used to the "Bach treatment", and his face shows that as well. "The Zone" indeed.
I've listened to Tocatta and Fugue hundreds of times and it always gives me chills. I think that's God giving me a treat!
7:26 gives me the chills
Yes
Porcodio it's toccata, not tocatta diocane
For the record he wrote more than one 'Toccata and Fugue'. This one, as the title states, is in D minor (BWV 565). And, oddly, his authorship of it is supposedly somewhat in doubt.
Bach firmaba sus obras: para la gloria de Dios. Por eso sus obras te llevan directamente al cielo
I love the face expression of this man
he looks like a machine. lol
yasss. I think hw would survive the zombie apocallypse for some reason.
5:38
I looooove it, too :D
1:00 to 1:07
Just imagine what it would've been like listening to this live the first time he preformed it. You didn't know what to expect.
Peter Jacobsen Probably similar to Marty McFly playing Johnnie B. Good in 1955. haha
+Turtle Philosopher You brought it Bach full circle!
I heard it performed live at the Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, Utah years ago during a concert I was in during high school
Imagine how lucky were his wifes and sons, they had the chance to listen to music that definitely came from god, first hand.
OMG ! Eargasm !
For a piece that's been culturally associated with spooky castles and haunted forests plagued by werewolves, it's refreshing to hear it in its entirety, and drink in all of those parts that aren;t dark at all, and realize that there's much in the music that's uplifting.
It's also associated by some people to the Nissan Skyline GT-R BNR32
Yep - it's perfect for almost every Hammer horror movie, every scene with Peter Lorre, every scene with a crawling, severed hand. PLUS Herbert Loms awesome Inspector Dreyfus in that Pink Panther flick....
@@Giuliana-w1f initial d vibes
hollywood takes every great piece of music and turns it inso a swamp mess. i love this, even without the VAMPIRES!!!! I KEEP FRSH GARLIC ON MY WINDOW SILLS TO KEEP THEM AWAY. THEY SWARM EVERYTIME THEY HEAR THIS.
Associated with these words just behind the atlantic. 😂
I will never forget how frightened I was as a child when I first heard the end of the fugue. Those chords. Sheer perfection.
Undoubtedly, the most majestic of all musical instruments. Everything else, even a grand piano can be brought to the stage of your choosing. The pipe organ says, "No. I possess the means for one person to play the part of an entire orchestra. No. You will come to me."
This is the most metal thing I've ever seen in my life.
and people say that 7 strings drop d tuning guitars are metal...
+Victor Garcia I love that !!😂😂😂😂
+keet2xx8 I was wondering what song that was in the into
...Aloha Matt...or was it perhaps the intro to The Band's Chest Fever that has created in you that audio-dacious, oh-too-familar, overwhelming feeling of dread? It's been documented in other than WikiPeuu or Songfacts that the classically trained, multi-instrumentalist (ok, got that from songfacts!) Garth Hudson use the drama if not the full chart for his improvised opening...aloha
:) Bach overshadows every single modern popular music composer in every way, especially imho, in terms of chord progression arrangement
A pianist at my church said the organ lifts up your soul to a higher level :)
Really
A C it does. Piano is meh, however. #OrganFTW
@@forestgreenorgangeekclaire8629 Yeah the piano is more beautiful and elegant, and a better instrument overall, however the organ is more powerful.
Heroin too.
You need to be on a higher level to play that😂
The Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565, is a work for organ written between 1703 and 1707 according to musicologists. The imslp attributes it in 1708. In his early days, Bach was a great admirer of Dietrich Buxtehude, to the point of absenting himself for several weeks, while working for the city of Arnstadt, in order to go and listen to him in Lübeck. North German organ works from this period are characterized by the presence of the Stylus phantasticus, derived from improvisation. This one includes heroic passages, with sought-after harmonies and sudden changes of rhythm. The toccata is a musical piece for keyboard instruments in an improvised and virtuoso style involving arpeggios, traits, and pedal. Klaus Eidam puts forward the hypothesis that the work was written in order to severely test the mechanics of the organ as well as the sound and playability of the instrument. Indeed, Bach was shooting all the stops of the organ in order to evaluate the power and the sufficient wind produced by the bellows. This piece would have been originally created for the harpsichord and then transposed to the organ to increase the spectacular effect. Due to the age of the work, there remain many unknowns about the conditions of its composition. Recent musicological works attribute the work to Johann Peter Kellner. However, there is a very broad consensus that the BWV 565 is indeed an original work by J. S. Bach. Certainly a youthful work, it is particularly imprint with the influences the composer loved to imbibe. The resemblance with other works are clear BWV 564 or BWV 566, and the initial formula of three notes more generally called a pinched is found the BWV 538, BWV 540. Generally speaking, the solidity and length of the fugue, particularly the small contrapuntal labyrinth that Bach used, was practically inimitable at the time. *Lucien*
I've never heard a big pipe organ being played live. It must be incredible.
Ive played one before, hearing it live is amazing
It truly is. It’s an experience you don’t forget. I hope you have the opportunity someday
xellossaxon How often are there shows of people playing classics like this?
one of a kind. it depends on where you are and if you have a big cathedral near you
It is! Make sure you hear a good one when you do! In a really big space like a massive hall or place of worship.
2:31 one of the greatest moments in musical history PERIODT
Orochimaru
MY FAV PART
Ikr luke HOWE
No cap
Whooho.. keep your pants on! ;)
There are so many different expressions of life that "classical" music examines/explore!
Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert, Shostakovitch, Scarlatti, Rameau, Mahler.. etc!
I do consider Bach is among the best if not the most important thou!
His Partitas and Toccatas for piano/cembalo is out of the blue.. and at the same time obvious!
this guy put all his points into dexterity
+xxxGuitarHeroAcexxx lol
And also spends all his mana playing this
+TheInvshika He's at the point where even self-masturbation feels better than sex with a vagina.
+Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn You, it's not in RPG you spent all your time . . .
Nice ds3 reference
This is an amazing performance. I feel like too many others rush the tempo, especially in the beginning, and really lose the full majesty of the piece. This is one of the relatively few (that I've found) that really captures it.
Thats also what I thought 😅. There wasn't a good version (in my opinion) on Spotify so I downloaded this one :)
Dziś organiści wszystko przyspieszają..Połowę organistów wywalić na 4 wiatry...i już nigdy niech do organów się tacy nie zbliżają..Wiele Mszy Świętych sprofanowanych przez pospieszalskich organistów,do czego doszło, do czego ?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😮
One doesn't reinvent this piece, nor does one even play it. It plays you straight with no chaser.
To say that this man is extraordinarily skilled would be insufficient. And to say that this song is beautiful would be an understatement.
piece*
hey socrates. big fan of your work. keep up the good work :)
What do you think of Thrasymachus, Adeimantus and Glaucon?
both
Don’t songs have singers singing?
I swear if JS Bach had been around during the 1970s he would have been a Prog Rock God.
You evidently have not heard Virgil Fox's heavy organ series, which were very popular with the rock 'n roll crowd.
Isn't he anyhow?!
Rock and roll and other modern genres wouldn’t exist without men like Bach
@@smithy1578 if time travel ever gets invented, the first thing we should do is give back a strat and a Marshall amp
Indeed
if you are fortunate enough to hear this played in person, it's an unbelievable physical experience... you can literally feel it in your bones from the vibrations and it's the most unforgettable experience. Still gives me goosebumps. try Ode to Joy too.
Sal Cr was just thinking about how much I'd love to experience that
I used to sit on the organ stool with my Dad when he played this. Had same effect on me.
imagine how it must have felt in bachs' mind hen he first composed & played this piece...
A couple of years ago around Halloween our (now retired) church organist played it after Mass. A crowd gathered around her and we all applauded when she was done. Unforgettable.
Sal Cr I had that experience at the National Cathedral in Washington DC several years ago. Amazing!! You could feel the sounds and vibrations in your bones and soul!!
My personal highlights:
00:00 - The welcoming.
00:34 - Preparing for greatness.
01:20 - So nice!
01:45 - The descent.
02:05 - Toccata ending.
02:31 - The best moment in music history. PERIOD.
03:20 - Breaking the pace.
03:30 - Going Bach to the best moment in music history.
03:46 - Heaven.
04:19 - So calm.
05:01 - BACH OMG!
05:58 - But wait, there's more!
06:39 - Joyful.
07:05 - Solo.
07:41 - And another solo.
07:54 - Gran final.
You're welcome.
PS: Mr Stamm really nailed this piece!
Going bach xD
Lovely
Imagine hearing 2:30 onward from this majestic device in a building designed to augment its acoustics. Feels like it takes something so awe inspiring to write such pieces.
The same reaction as mine when I hear the 05:01 part... It's so fascinating and scary. The best goosebump I've ever felt
vagabond
Wow. 3:45 - 4:20 is so incredibly beautiful. I don’t know how music can be so great, and how someone can actually invent that.
Please, listen Andrus Klimka - Ruinberg (OST World of tanks)
@@_.genius._ e no thank you
A mi me recuerda a la mística de un videojuego 😎
Bach was a musical genius
The amount of information being taken in through this guys eyes, then processed by his brain while almost instantaneously being relayed to his appendages to convey said information....but with emotion thrown in there....will always amaze me or leave me speachless!
The first part, the "Taccata" is a classic with horror films. I think it was "Phantom of the Opera" that made it a horror classic. It is the second part, the "fugue" that I always thought had an unusual beauty to it.
***** Agreed. I am very very picky when it comes to classical music. I just know what I like, as we all do when it comes to anything. I do not put up fronts like many do and pretend to enjoy music/certain sports/ books/ celebrities, etc... just because all the other lemmings do. If that makes sense. But these two pieces of music have always received my immediate attention based on what I heard and how they made me feel. Plus, how I watch them being played on a keyboard. I have much respect for Bach and Beethoven for various reasons, but that is a different story.
I made a video from this masterpiece : ua-cam.com/video/VYsisaZE3Xc/v-deo.html
Does the opposite work though? Does the complex musical pattern induces billions of neurons to fire in a manner that produce a different state of mind as the composer? A neuron-chemical response of sorts? I wonder...
?????? warning!!! the following 'may' make things less amazing -
HE HAS PRACTISED THIS A THOUSANDS TIMES BEFOREHAND!! so what you think is information being taken in through his eyes are merely cues for things that he has previously memorized through repetition.
also note that this does not demean the difficulty of what he is doing
The fugue is so beautiful!! It gives chills and a feeling of awe every time! 2:30
this the best part 😱
ghost reader. Arghhh yess !!
The tocota part is nice but the fugue is way more beautiful
Fyi you can also play it on the piano
Dany Dbaibo the organ beats the piano to a frazzle; get ORGANized, not pianoized. #OrganFTW
This is the only video where this piece by Bach is played correctly, not too slow and not too fast, just right, a sensazion
Concordo ! E digo mais , essa música tem ser tocada por esse instrumento . Com piano não é suficiente para expressar a magnitude dessa obra.
@@magdacarvalho8541 exactly
How can someone sight read and play for 3 different keyboards and for feet? This man isn't human. Amazing performance!
this is not sight reading
+Jakob Johnson yes, I realized that after posting. This is just reading. But there are people who sight-read such pieces and they're geniuses.
There's a guy on UA-cam playing my heart will go on with an organ with 5 keyboards and pedals
link?
The finger keys are tacked together via a switch or knob on the console.
Anyone else laughing at the part where he uses his feet around 2:12. Unbelievable skill and such a shame that this only has around 740k views at the time of this comment, almost 5 years after the original upload date......
P. Seud Onym Not laughing. It's sad. People ask "do you listen to that music on purpose?" I could be wrong and if I am education is welcome. I believe this gentleman has a doctorate in music and has spent years learning his art. He is a delight to watch as he really gets into what he's doing. Not a musician, an artist.
grant manewal Why is it sad?
grant manewal I feel like you only read the first few words of that comment.
grant manewal did you read the whole comment? I wasn't laughing at the man, or the song, it just caught me off guard.
P. Seud Onym I agree! Amazing only 750K views. Compare with Gangman, whatever. A verdict on the human race I suppose.
IMAGINE HIS FEELING, ALL THIS POWER IN HIS HANDS, OH MY GOD THIS IS THE MOST EPIC SONG EVER MADE
This isn't a song.
Song?
You mean “piece”, don’t you?
arcraim you mean piece
Petra Quartz you are right. It's a piece.
Через наушники передается великолепие того что видно и слышно. Но если быть ТАМ во время самой игры, душа улетает в небо и слезы текут сами. После такого выходишь как после чистки.
The only hint that the organist is alive and not possessed is the fact that he blinks.
Wow this is true
Sheer focus my friend.
Thats what the organ makes you think
He's concentrating. Playing a piece like this takes enormous concentration. This is an incredible performance.
He's a living vampire, a decedent of Dracula. he-he
There are absolutely not enough words of praise for this man. Splendorous! God bless him.
He is blessed to be able to play so true to the composer and time!
The bass sound of this organ is incredible
almost all organs sound incredible. even reed organs sound fantastic, once you figured out how to play them.
This is the best video version you can watch the actual keys of the organ move … and thank you for playing this
This rendition of an all time Bach favorite makes my cry when I watch it. Herr Stamm does such a perfectly beautiful rendition of the piece, so very well interpreted and played, on such an amazingly beautiful instrument. I truly wish I could travel there to hear and see this beautiful organ. Watch, listen, and enjoy the complexities of this piece, played by a maestro.
Two young people playing Bach.. it's so good to see! Bach is the soul of the music, we cannot lose this tradition.
ua-cam.com/video/Yqhx1WOnw8o/v-deo.html
If you're crying when you're watching this just imagine what happens when you'll listen it!
Великолепный исполнитель, божественный композитор, потрясающий тембр органа ! прекрасная съёмка! Большое спасибо за видео !
Там монтаж,чел другой играет; вобщем не важно это ШЕДЕВР!¡!¡♡⛪🌕🎼☦👍👍👍👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏿👍🏿👍🏻👏💓🇷🇺📿🕊😢👂👂🏻
Pure genius. A pinnacle of creativity in human history and one that will live on for as long as human civilisation. The contrast between perfect harmony and dissonance is what marks Bach out.
butterflipmanny civilization*
Civilisation is also correct, looks like the grammar nazi got grammared.
Look it up on google, Civilisation is a real word
*orthographied ;)
British spelling has been a thing for far longer than American spelling has.
Meu Deus que música harmônica, linda, e muito bem tocada. Essa foi a experiência mais reconfortante e maravilhosa desse ano
Muito bom!!!
Essa foi a música tema do comercial do Chevrolet Diplomata 1987 com o Maestro Diogo Pacheco. Assistam. Incrível
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌
O miserável é um Gênio.
I want this guy at my funeral.
Start saving
It cost 5000000$ Just for him too show up. And a additional 10000000000$ dollars to actually play the organ.
He’s prob dead (I get the joke don’t wooosh me)
Me too
In a twist of fate, you might show up at HIS funeral, for free. he-he
Lol he looks so comfortable playing, he makes it look so easy.
BlObS 🤩
Cause hes your mommy.Ooooo
big brain pfp
Gosh, I can’t imagine how long it took him to master such an instrument. How would you even get into that, being that they’re so expensive??
@@heidiwang2033 you must think you're so funny
It’s amazing to me how one person can perform such a masterpiece. Bach is my favorite composer. This performance is one of the best I’ve seen.
Others need a whole band or orchestra to play that.
If Bach is your favourite composer, can you listen this two young people playing Bach.. ? it's so good to see!
ua-cam.com/video/Yqhx1WOnw8o/v-deo.html
Beste Interpretation ever.. ich hör s so gern und immer wieder. DANKE!
Bach was the Einstein of music composition. Being extremely fluent in Mathematics and Latin he exploded onto the music scene, and its Ironic because Einstein was a frequent listener to Bach.
Bach was the greatest but gosh, Beethoven just has my ear.
Bach didn't know math , simple multiplication
Well, Mozart was THE genius
He is the master of polyphony, surely the most mind boggling musical skill!
OniYoshihiro I wouldn't use "ironic", but "appropriate".
Bach was the ultimate top of musicians and composers,the Archangel of music...there won't never be someone like him,never!
Two young people playing Bach.. it's so good to see! Bach is the soul of the music, we cannot lose this tradition.
ua-cam.com/video/Yqhx1WOnw8o/v-deo.html
I agree.
You forgoted about Mozart
Did you know that Johan Sebastian Bach lost his daughter, then three sons, and then his wife? He then remarried and lost four more daughters and three sons to his second wife, Anna Magdalena. Eleven beloved children...
Many researchers have asked the question: How did Bach manage these losses? How come he didn't stop breathing, how come his heart didn't stop? And most importantly, how could he continue to compose music? Cantatas, cello suites, masses, concerts... The most beautiful music the world has ever heard. Do you know how he did it? At the end he always wrote "Soli Deo gloria" (Glory to God alone) and at the beginning "Lord help me". So you can pray during Bach's music, because the music itself is a prayer.
Bach's music is a conversation between man and God.
This version is translated from Reddit
0:01 you are given a test
1:08 you go to the first question
1:22 you don’t remember what a cosine is
1:25 you don’t know what to do
1:30 you write random numbers
1:34 You realize the time is up
1:38 You give the test to the teacher
1:41 that final blast hits you cuz your mom has high expectations
If you ever have the opportunity to hear a pipe organ played in person especially this piece do it. It’s an experience you’ll never forget.
5:02 that bass line is incredible
Yeah, that's another example 6:09
This Fugue has this theme throughout, if you notice it’s what it starts with at 2:31. Gotta love fugues!
Love the bit in the bass at 1:22 as well
@@br0hamus yeah it was a subject entry in another key.
And 1:09
Thirty seven years later and this still takes my breath away with how ethereal and powerful and awesome it is. I feel as if my soul has left my body and entered into that pure and holy realm surrounded by God, light, fear, respect, love, and awe. Thank you to God, thank you to Bach and thank you to the musician for delivering Bach's music so beautifully!
A very beautiful and touching comment!!
37 years later after what?
I don't know of any other piece of music that has a more beautiful ending than this. Those chords are surprise after surprise, each better and more astounding than the last.
That man's face is just perfect for this
Can you do it instead.? The answer is NO.
Metallica: "We are the kings of Heavy Metal!" Iron Maiden: "No, we are!" Bach: "Here, hold my beer..."
Only Manowar have ever made such claims
"Hold my cello"
I think that Randy Rhoads was definitely inspired by this in some of his solos.
Yes sir.
Hahaha
I never knew about this guy till I heard his musical piece. Pure genius. RIP Johan Sebastian Bach. Live a legend, die a legend.
Bach**
@@maradiulisimshvide thanks for the correction. I didn't intentionally mean to spell his name wrong it was just the stupid autocorrect
You never heard Air ? ua-cam.com/video/pzlw6fUux4o/v-deo.html
Absolutely PERFECT version!!! Not too fast, not too slow and amazing Grand Organ Musician! Bravo! ♥♥♥
This was the first piece of classical music i have ever heard, when i was five my father took me to an organ concert. Today, 24 years later, it still gives me chicken skin. Thank you johann. Thanks dad.
@@kwandilekhumalo4948 Sure it is, and that means it's not from the Vienna Classical period, but it's still classical music, i.e. old but not folk
2:30 one of the best moments in music
Fr
Wait, there's no hands playing the bottom keys, but they're moving up and down!! Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!
@@extremejustin4611 I think they are conected to the ones he is playing
@@extremejustin4611 i think it should be some mechanism of the organ when you play the upper keyboard. But i don't understand that much to talk about.
absolutely
Bach wrote this at age 15 working as an organmakers apprentice to stress test the organs. Genius at work.
No, he wrote it much latter in life. BWV 565 would be much latter according to most.
I don't think Bach was a prodigy. He started early in music, but this particular work was composed much later in his life
@@yashbspianoandcompositions1042 Lol. You don’t think Bach was a prodigy?
@@yashbspianoandcompositions1042 he was a prodigy he wrote 1000 masterpieces... He began composing masterful works at a very young age much like Mozart
Yes, he did some nonsense on the organ, also, I think that nonsense sounds nice
Love how the footwork sometimes leads, sometimes follows on the bass pedals. Brilliant performance.
There's something called pedal point / pedal note, or even straight up organ note. Wikipedia has a good article on that, but basically it's a usage of low note either sustained under or one low note alternating with higher notes, and the latter are usually changing. Inverted pedal note when bass takes role of higher notes and vice versa (like around 2:30, it's THE textbook example). Standard pedal notes are very common in metal and to some extent rock music, because it suits guitar well (you don't have to touch the lower note with fretting hand and can quickly alternate between E and A string with the picking hand). Also it slaps lol. But some guitarists often apply the inverted pedal note, prime example being Yngwie Malmsteen, who is fascinated beyond all by classical / baroque music.
@@de_oScar not sure if you have your own video channel, but your explanation and delineation across genres is awesome. What you explained is what people who love music need to observe, hear, unterstand and appreciate. Like a fine wine. The details and contrast of talent and sheer brilliance can also be appreciated once explained, observed and understood. Thank-you for your in-depth explanation and obvious appreciation for music. Much appreciated and well done!
@@de_oScar ok, you’ve given me motivation…. Went back and listened again, switched over to Rush (Xanadu, Live with Geddy Lee on bass and synth-pedals). Both brilliant for different reasons but applied what I learned from your comments. Would love to learn more or just talk music. Thanks again- PS - I made contact with Hans Andre who performed on this video. Really great job with teen age kids etc. The man is really a great person trying his own compositions.
This partiture is so sublime that puts me to tears......I can't stop wonder how was Bach able to get this out of his head..... it's just unbelievable and impossible to describe in words how majestic this sequence of sounds are..... It's just unhuman.
Quite so! It is all of that.
Can you imagine opening the musical score and discovering precisely what is expected of you?
Ok
This is one of the best performances of this piece on UA-cam.
It’s the best.
ua-cam.com/video/6JQm5aSjX6g/v-deo.html
8:19
Holy hell.
Such a beautiful transition of tone. Seems like that single transition was way ahead of Bach's time. Serious musical genius to include such a tonal change at this period in the evolution of music. It feels like something expected in the Romantic period of music or later. It makes me shudder it's so beautiful.
I agree. Bach was ahead of his time by far. By the way, that harmonic progression at the end is a deceptive cadence leading to a plagal cadence. I got goosebumps when I heard it too.
Wunderbare Musik von Johann Sebastian Bach, sehr schön vorgetragen.
8:18 Easily my favourite bit. That one note is honestly amazing. The build up to it is great.
In german there is an old word for that "Verzückung". It basically means feeling gods love or being kissed by god. These disharmonic and suddenly from minor to major cords feel like heaven
thats a chord not a note
Ein phantastisches Werk der Menschheitsgeschichte! Irgendwie hat das Stück und seine Entwicklung etwas von der Entwicklung eines Lebens, von Anfang bis zum Ende. Die Toccata zu Beginn als erster Abschnitt und dann das Einsetzen der mega epischen Fuge bei 2:30. Da entwickelt sich nach und nach etwas immer komplexer Werdendes und geht immer weiter und wird immer verspielter, einfach phantastisch. Das Ende entwickelt sich mit so einer emotionalen Nachhaltigkeit. Wenn die ausgespielten Akkorde bei 7:54 beginnen, bekomme ich Gänsehaut. Man bekommt das Gefühl, dass etwas ganz Großes sich allmählich dem Ende neigt. Dann die getragenen Akkorde am Schluss. Sie führen langsam und immer noch mit scheinbar unerschöpflicher Kraft letztendlich dann doch auf das Ende, wenn der letzte Akkord verhallt.
Sehr gut beschrieben
@@ronalduelsmann1743 danke :)
8 minutes of pure genius that takes 20 years to master... Take a bow kid 👍👍
Bravo, Bravissimo...!
The part from 2:41 really sends shivers down my spine. I love the whole of this piece, but that part in particular is breathtaking. Bach is my all-time favourite composer, anyway, there is simply no other composer like him, his work is stunning - especially this piece Fuge in D Minor
Paulo Feitosa Ah, so you got the same feeling?
i have this tune on my BlackBerry and i love it!
Try Shostakovich's 5th Symphony, but you should read Jeremy Denk on the piece first. Shostakovich has our 'modern' soul and was terrorized into reporting back to us (!) about the horror of naked power (I hope my humble opinion is not too far off the mark). ---(not Judy, but her husband) Jim
My reply is 3 years, late but yes, I certainly got the same feeling.
Four years late with the reply, but yes. I get a certain feeling with this piece but especially with the part I mentioned.
Those keys look so satisfying to press... y’all know what I mean?
*Press any key to meet God*
@@kurumi394 F
@@kurumi394 E
no i dont
@Isaac The Musician No, that are the couplers, which, if mechanical, can burden the keys. It depends on the coupler system.
This is truly a next-level performance. A technical master expressing his interpretation of the great toccata (and fugue) flawlessly. The piece has so many unwritten micro-rhythms, transition timings and velocities, and many of theme were executed in naturally beautiful ways I have not heard before. All I felt it was lacking was a more the calm and collected energy which I deeply crave in this particular piece, and typically in music in general.
Godly.
It is good but from what my father say (he play organ) this video is full of musical mistakes but it is great anyway.
Daniel Ostlund I feel as though the rests were poorly observed, which took away a decent amount.
We have a movie theater with a pipe organ in it. On some weekend evenings, before the movie began, the music would begin and the organ was raised. ALWAYS loved listening to that organ before a movie. Fantastic sound. Oh those were the daze my friend, we thought they'd never end....
This guy is fucking insane, if you didn't see the video you'd think there was more than one man playing this
There is this superb Bach's music, there is this amazing organist, but I got mesmerized by all gorgeous detail in this organ. What amazing instrument in such beautifull church, man!
Creo que también es conveniente que emitamos comentarios en español y debo decir que también en mi país mexico apreciamos la excelente producción musical del mundo y como no esta es una de las más grandes obras de J. S. Bach. Felicidades e infinitas gracias por compartir estas excelentes obras...
El que es hispanoparlante se expresa en español, pero no pretenderá usted obligar a los angloparlantes a expresarse en un idioma que no conoce ni domina. Igual, el lenguaje de la música es universal, y Bach también.
Era la música de la emisión erase una vez el hombre
Miguel, amo mucho el español y prefiero de lejos el español al inglés
Desde Catamarca, Argentina, saludandote. Esta obra siempre me transporta a otro universo, aunque pasen los años, cada vez que la escucho me genera esa sensación indescriptible. Me siento en el barroco.
Zawsze wracam do Pana wykonania tego wspaniałego utworu. Szacunek za talent gry na tak skomplikowanym instrumencie. Polska.
More than 2000 down? How on earth can you downvote a masterpiece like this?
Millenials, that explains everything, they like reggaeton.
One of the most sublime pieces of music ever composed.
Only a genius can create something like that. Excellent organist performance.
Perfect! No other words or thoughts come to my mind. I never heard a better interpretation of this work! Thank you Mr. Stamm for allowing me to have this experience!
Played as superbly as any time I've heard the music - perfection. Thank you so so much.
Man playing on 2nd keyboard, his ghost playing on the 3rd keyboard.
Its an stand user
He's playing with his feet
@@mrsniper6127 that he's doing on top of it.
Oh God! Why not enjoy it, not make "humorous" remarks.
Stevie x bruh
One of the joys in life is listening to Bach and the organ, it is simply sublime!
My favorite thing about this video is the Organ Piano. That has to be the most holiest Pipe Organ I ever seen. Music straight from Heaven.
A true master piece in music, and a talented performer....What a delight to hear this....WOW....AMAZING!!!!!
FANTASTIC ! J. S. BACH,
always remains the biggest for me!
Two young people playing Bach.. it's so good to see! Bach is the soul of the music, we cannot lose this tradition.
ua-cam.com/video/Yqhx1WOnw8o/v-deo.html
Me: damn. Amazing he can move his fingers with such perfection. This looks really hard to do.
Few minutes later: his feet too!?!
I'd need a nap after playing this and something cold to drink
Kougeru .... What the fuck are you doing here? An anime lover here? makes no sense lol... I love anime too bte xD
Kougeru do you know organ? I think not.
Kougeru - It's an organ, what do you expect?
We're just amazed by his virtuosity.
Love how he works the pedals too while playing looks like it takes coordination
Classical music is by no means my forte, but I'll bet anybody that Bach never intended this piece to be associated with ghost stories and haunted houses.
Yeah. It was always used as the theme for any Dracula movie.
Scott Davis no of course not. It was written for either before or after a church service, or during the offertory.
It's not classical music, it is actally baroque
This music was never found to be written by Bach
+UnoriginalUsername ... You are correct, sir.
Love this. It's so fucking badass. The beginning gives you chills.
+John Smith I don't recall him calling it a song....
+theamvgirlx Yup . You are right . The beginning encourages the listener to expect something BIG !!!
Hope Ghostbusters can help . Happy Halloween !!!!!! LOL
+theamvgirlx Yup . You are right . The beginning encourages the listener to expect something BIG !!!
Hope Ghostbusters can help . Happy Halloween !!!!!! LOL
+John Smith she never said it was a song 😕
theamvgirlx Agreed, I heard a version of this piece that was performed by a string ensemble and, frankly, it doesn't have the same impact as a pipe organ rendition of the same piece
This is a masterpiece and I can't imagine all the time it takes to master the organ and then this piece of music so flawlessly. Hats off to Mr Stamm. Wow. I would love to hear this live, it must be epic.
It is. Hearing a pipe organ played in person is an experience you never forget
This is my favorite performance of my favorite piece of music. Very well done, Mr Stamm!
Редкое исполнение... Наслаждение слушать такое исполнение на уникальном органе!
Позвольте узнать - чем этот орган уникален?
@@vladimirtchirikov6367 Каждый орган уникален. Двух одинаковых нет.
@@ОксанаПисьменная-р1ъ У вас с логикой всё в порядке?
@@vladimirtchirikov6367
У меня с логикой всё в порядке. Спросить, в чём уникальность оргАна, мог только тот, кто об органах ВООБЩЕ НИЧЕГО не знает.
Нет двух оргАнов, у которых совпадали бы все характеристики. Разное количество труб, регистров. Разный сплав, из которого изготовлены трубы. Разные акустические свойства у залов, в которых инструменты установлены. Инструмент строят с учётом данных помещения, в котором он будет установлен. Их не перевозят. Если орган демонтируют, то после восстановления он даже в своём родном зале может изменить звучание. Часто и меняют после реставрационных работ. Как, например, орган Рижского Домского собора. Но если у Вас не абсолютный слух, Вы, конечно, можете считать, что все инструменты звучат одинаково. Логика ни при чём.
@@ОксанаПисьменная-р1ъ Очень даже причём и речь идёт не об органах вовсе (о которых мне известно не меньше вашего), а о словах и их значении. Словосочетание "на уникальном органе" или вообще чего-то или кого-то уникального логически подразумевает существование подобного же, но НЕ УНИКАЛЬНОГО. Напр. этот небоскрёб уникален тем, что он самый высокий в мире, при том что и другие небоскрёбы могут быть уникальны из-за каких-то других характеристик, например своей конструкцией или использованием уникальной технологии при строительстве. Дошло? В этом смесле я и задал вам свой каверзный, но вполне ЛОГИЧЕСКИ обоснованный вопрос . И если бы вы подумали немножко, то могли бы что-нибудь убедительное сочинить. Скажем, он самый старый в мире, или его строили по личному заказу Баха и под его строгим наблюднием. Ну, как со скрипками: эту изготовил Страдивари, тем она и уникальна, а эту -Амати, а эту - Гварнеги. Каждая уникальна по своему.
one of the most psychedelic pieces of music ever written
For psychedelic, try Antonio Soler's Fandango, played by Puyana. ua-cam.com/video/aed2stqaGxE/v-deo.html
Try "The King's Hunt" by John Bull ua-cam.com/video/Eyhas5DnoM4/v-deo.html
A great album of 11 diverse experiences: ua-cam.com/video/amqw0XiNSiU/v-deo.html
As a psytrance producer and long term musician I beg to differ: this one's about the _clearness_ of the mind, the uniqueness of consciousness. Nothing against a little expansion of the mind, hehe, but you need the clearness of it to enjoy the former :)
Sorabji.
Nothing like a bunch of dope heads popping up.
Amazing performance & organ
8:25 me trying to remember what i had for lunch, and then the teacher asks me to join the class:
KkKkkkkKkkkkkKkkKkKkkkKKkkKKKKkkkkkkkkkk
Lol...
underrated comment
Hahaha. No
The church organs wow 🥰🥰🥰For me this is the first synthesizer every build plus this magic music from BACH👊👊👊So power full😊 when I listen this music I hear Rock or Techno this days absolutely Master plus this guy plying this peace Master as well THNK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THIS PERFOMANCE 👍👍😍😍perfect