Clavier-Ubung III
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 182 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5131-4635-3
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Clavier-Ubung III, sometimes referred to as the German Organ Mass, is a collection of compositions for organ by Johann Sebastian Bach, started in 1735–6 and published in 1739. It is considered to be Bach's most significant and extensive work for organ, containing some of his musically most complex and technically most demanding compositions for that instrument. In its use of modal forms, motet-style and canons, it looks back to the religious music of masters of the stile antico, such as Frescobaldi, Palestrina, Lotti and Caldara. At the same time Bach was forward-looking, incorporating and distilling modern baroque musical forms, such as the French-style chorale. The work has the form of an Organ Mass: between its opening and closing movements—the great "St Anne" prelude and triple fugue in E flat BWV 552—are 21 chorale preludes BWV 669–689 setting parts of the Lutheran mass and catechisms, followed by four duets BWV 802–805. The chorale...