Toccata and Fugue in D Minor - Fantasia (1940)

[hokusai]

Now THIS is music<3

[TheMusicalPsycho]

First time watching, 2012. Just sayin.

[themetroidprime]

1940 -> Fantasia.

2012 -> Glee.

Oh God why am I not born in 1930...

[TheGlitzyluvscandy14]

@themetroidprime great depression..............not so ouch i would of liked to be born at Bach's time though.

[tacocats1989]

@themetroidprime ...yeah because the 30s were such a good time and there was nothing wrong with it at all -coughfrikkinWW2cough-. What's wrong with being born late, Fantasia still exists and is still great. if you don't like modern music don't listen to the radio.

[themetroidprime]

@tacocats1989 O rly ? God, this is an ironic comment...

[tacocats1989]

@themetroidprime then your irony needs some work

[fedex3d]

Reminds me of childhood days when l first saw Fantasia

[UnIdiotaQualunque]

I'm watching in 2012, the movie was made in 1940, i first watched in 1997 ca.

[iifosterii]

Thumbs down if you're watching it in 2012.

[Poupu]

This is my childhood right here. I use to watch Fantasia repeatedly when I was a baby....in fact..I played the VHS tape so much, it broke. 20 years later, I'm a music major; singing and playing the piano. I'm hoping to get a Masters in Music Performance someday. My love of music began...all thanks to this movie :)

[Avatarass]

this aint no black guy making fart noises into a microphone.

[shenerdist]

@Avatarass You know many other races rap right?

[Avatarass]

@shenerdist only black people state its their culture.

[shenerdist]

@Avatarass Well I guess I'm not "black" then. Thanks for being stereotypical.

[MrFranzParker]

shame to french t.v. 'cause has never showed this in entire version, only a few extracts seconds, to let us in frustration and ignorance for the beauty things that men can do and purity of his essence.

[mravel1100]

This recording is absolutely amazing! I'm always trying to search for recordings of this piece that are as good, but I can never find one. I love the violas at 3:42 The Fugue!

[gamefan6219]

8:12 WHAT IS THAT?!

[gamefan6219]

8:12 WHAT THE HELL IS THAT

[stikeMedia]

My school took me to see this at the Omnimax theatre in La Defense in Paris before it shut down. You've just watched it in 360p. Now imagine it on a gigantic half-spherical screen with 12.1 surround sound ;)

[cha0sleader]

As a stage lighting guy, I have to say just how utterly and completely impressed I am by the lights and silhouettes thing they did in the first half. You have to remember, this was before we had fancy programmable systems; there were a bunch of guys somewhere flipping huge switches, in time with the music. It's still amazing, even today.

[2007pkd]

im getting this music sheet...i was gonna get it today but my teacher couldn't find another 1st violin copy so imma have to get it next week...still pretty awesome :)

[lozzercs]

I heard this at school! now I know where I first heard it! WOW.

[Ronthrashirwuzheer]

Its interesting to listen to this piece done by an orchestra. You get on youtube, type in toccata and fugue, and the search results are plagued with dozens guitar and dubstep takes on this piece. And the truth is... This piece is terrible to listen to. Bach's style of was overly mathematical, and technical to the point of his own ridicule. But this orchestra captures what he was trying to do with his music. It captures a soul, emotion, taste, color but above all an idea of what was done. Bravo!

[TheBleuBlurr]

@Ronthrashirwuzheer That's not exactly the truth for me, I enjoy listening to this, as well as other orchestra renditions of this piece. Even on the organ is sounds great. Do you mean to say that this is the only version that isn't terrible for you?

[FriendlyCroock]

@Ronthrashirwuzheer

Bach lived in an era where composers were not aloud to do stuff like this

Bach is the greatest ever but we have dumb and tasteful interpretations today

listen to this old track watch?v=EuzYE3E0Nfk

[beauzuluuluz]

this song is the fucking SHIT!!!!

AMAZING!!

[NerfedFalcon]

All of this was done without computers?

MIND=BLOWN

[Cstov001]

@NerfedFalcon its the only way... unless you make fractals... then it isn't

[MsPlayitright]

@NerfedFalcon Yep!! Genius is in the mind, not the machine!

[gorillazhead]

@NerfedFalcon Want to see an even more mind blow?

Check out "The Thief and the Cobbler/The Princess and the Cobbler/Arabian Knights (all the same movie, re-edited.)

Beautiful animation done back in the late 70's/early 80's without the aid of computers.

[moggingalong]

only like it from 3:48 :) my fav bit

[CanadianoftheCoast]

It's amazing how the classics still captivate even after the centuries.

[QueenWaterLily]

@CanadianoftheCoast

I agree

[Evgenios22]

I really love this music, especially associated with this artwork! =D

But, since the time I was small, I was wondering what is this walking stone at 8:15 ... ^^"" Nevertheless, really beautiful music! =')

[zazudragon85]

nothing can beat listening to this with a live orchestra

[doseiaisha]

7:25 DICKS. DICKS EVERYWHERE

[AbusedViola]

I can play this.

[Tarynus]

Fantasia just proves the human imagination is one of the single most powerful things to exist, especially when used by the likes of the classic Disney artists

[seixas84stg]

this music make me believe in God

[ghosthost100]

Whenever I think of this sequence from Fantasia I think of Halloween & Christmas! B/c Toccata & Fugue comes before the Nutcracker!

[lonepeakchucknorris]

i remember watching this any thinking, "how can anyone make music this good?" its otherworldly how it all fits together.

[HealthSciBitty]

aaaah 8:16 always freaked me out as a kid!

[dontreallycare122]

@HealthSciBitty Me too! There were a lot of parts of this movie that scared me as a child...But I loved so many parts to it I could never give it up.

[mcflickle]

my highschool marching band is playing this as our show

[alphatrum]

magic

[mentalrectangle]

Loved this part as a kid, and still love it now. Still Disney's best animated film.

[MrRougeace]

Funny after just listening to the Nutcracker Suite from this I thought.... be nice if there were some Halloween style music... BAM-O this :D

[MrBoredomrulesmylife]

This is absolutely beautiful. But it's also kind of unnerving. I feel like it tells a story. I always saw it as... like.. struggling emotions. Feeling happiness and sadness and anger all at the same time, not knowing which one is the dominant emotion and then, all of a sudden, you come to terms with yourself, and you find happiness. That's how I always saw it anyway.

[Anarchemitis]

LEOPOLD!

[mymuffinnotyours]

So many chills up my spine to count. I fell like I've been stabbed in the back by old man Winter.

[AnnettePoke]

Just beautiful:-)

[YourFaceWillDie468]

I would like to have a dream like this visual sequence someday (or rather, some night).

[NewComposer01]

@YourFaceWillDie468 as a child, i dreampt this sequence all day.... at school :P

[lordlapswans]

roger smith's version is way better !

[betacamo]

green thing at 8:13? Yeah, when I was a kid, I thought it was a angry green armchair walking away.

[ricciolinas]

@betacamo Me too XD I was afraid of that thing and I screamed "It's coming the armchair"!!!

Sorry for my English ;-)

[KillerHelix]

@ricciolinas It always reminded me of that big red monster from Looney Toons...

[ricciolinas]

@KillerHelix True, you are right ;-)

[veelalynne]

@betacamo LOL I used to think "Frankenstein!"

[parasathena77]

This is was a hard cartoon for kids, but the music is amazing :) thanks for posting

[jfeucht82]

I think I might have been addicted to this performance when I was a kid.

[XxSamiKainxX]

My friend is an amazing pianist, flutist, and guitarist, it surprises me on how well you can make music tell a story or paint a picture in your mind. I've never been musically gifted but i sure do have a lot of respect for music and the people who play it :)

[liketammysaids]

the whole of this is my computer's screensaver

[DCdabest]

pay attention kids, this is what music looks like!

[jacksonkidd]

Thumbs up if your watching this in 2011

[PintSizedSlasherJr]

@jacksonkidd Sorry, 1940, wait another 70 years and I may be included.

[CCthebat]

@jacksonkidd I am totally watching this in 2011! :)

[DetestProtest]

Only now do I truly perceive the significance of the old Ipod commercials.

[iloverush123]

Love this and this movie...I was expecting a 32' organ stop at :38, though.

[VintageSG]

Orchestra or pipe organ... Nope, can't decide which I prefer. If you have never experienced either live, go to it!

A pipe organ on full chat makes even the most powerful sub-woofer equipped stereo pale into insignificance with its authority, and the way the soundscape dances from an orchestra makes me wish I was synaesthetic. This may well be my favourite piece of 'classical' music.

So, organ or orchestra?

[jrssjdca]

@VintageSG I pick organ. The orchestra just doesn't have the power that the organ has.

I just checked out subwoofers, and there are some powerful ones out there. One costs $13,000 and goes down to 1hz. But what's the point? That's too low. The problem with competitions for speaker dynamics and pipe air flow is that the music may be compromised if not done properly. Paling into insignificance is a pretty strong statement, and unless there's a "side by side", then the comparison isn't valid.

[VintageSG]

@jrssjdca I too pick organ. I have been to an organ recital in a cathedral and being swept up in the sound, the authority a pipe organ brings to this piece brooks no compromise. It's visceral. Cinema sound systems, although quite impressive, are a pale facsimile.

For home listening, orchestra. I don't own a subwoofer, but I do own a very nice sounding amp/speaker combination and the delicacy in the strings is a different experience altogether.

[colormagicsky]

Bach and Disney! Nothing better than that.

[imperatorike]

@qxpxqx You're about to show your ignorance, but please, don't let that stop you.

[mickXfan]

this was the movie that got me interested in classical music when i was a kid..

[ShinyGlitterDoll]

God this music is beautiful. Its true what everyone says- you have to grow up to truly appreciate it. But hearing this amazing classical music when we were younger (even if we didn't know it was good then) brings back a good, nostalgic feeling. Hearing it I remember sitting in my living room watching it on video, with my parents, and that safe feeling of childhood...

[Jimbothenoob]

Who orchestrated this?

[ThomasDeCosteTV]

@Jimbothenoob Leopold Stokowski

[Tyrulaan]

@ThomasDeCosteTV You're the man.

[Nikolidas]

You watch this as a kid. You forget most of it. In later life, an adult will, perhaps in school, play a score that he/she says is famous, and you recognise it and hum the tune even though you can't recollect where you heard it before. You become a classical music fanatic. You go on YouTube when it gets invented. You watch Fantasia again because your original is on VHS. The penny drops; this is the most influential film of your childhood, and all who haven't seen it have been cruelly stolen from.

[Iwantamansonguitar]

@Nikolidas Story of my life bro :)

[Ronthrashirwuzheer]

@Nikolidas I agree, this is hands down on of the best films ever made.

[skydiveNY]

@Nikolidas Wow, what a great description! How true it is, even though my story is a bit different, its amazing in its detail.

[Dartwith]

this always used to scare me in a fantastic way as a kid

[combatcorrespondent]

Every single one of these people....is dead.

[therealdjcammONUTUBE]

can anyone in the world explain the walking stone bit? used to scare me more than the chernabog scene :S

[AnnBonns]

@therealdjcammONUTUBE Did it scare you too ? My, when I was young, this stone always reminded me something very strange... I always thought about Taz, the tasmanian devil in Looney Tunes !!! But something else was more scary for me: those color changing dunes between 7.10 and 7.20. I don't know why, but they always frightened me. Can somebody explain this ? :)

[als510]

@AnnBonns I so relate to this. I think the dunes reminded me of the Looney Tunes' circles, at the beginning of "Silly Symphonies"... And about the dunes being scary... don't know. Maybe it reminded you of earthquakes or something?

For me it was very "trippy". And in the end, I thought the orange pillars with the blue skies were space shuttles...

[TheLastMyztery]

@als510 I am in a very similar response. I love this video showing relation of picture and music, but I too was scared by some of these features, especially when the music refers into C minor and all those thick red lines are slowly moving about on the floor.

But nonetheless, it is a good reminder of my childhood.

[sleestalk]

@TheLastMyztery  this is why you dont watch this while tripping on ACID !!!!

[Matteic]

@therealdjcammONUTUBE I always saw a tombstone in it, like a coffin going towards death... and resurrection with the lights at 8:20

[Dukeobelding]

I read somewhere that this scene was cut from the film when it was rerelesed in the 50's, that's kinda depressing.

[ItalianBandit]

wasn't Disney a Nazi?

[IlersichProductions]

@ItalianBandit how is that relevant to anything? why does that matter in the slightest? why would you go to an amazing combination of video and music like this just to post "he's a nazi"?

[kourosh89]

@ItalianBandit no dude, he even made anti-Nazi propoganda

[Blacksun388]

@ItalianBandit No, I heard he was anti-semmite but not a Nazi. Walt Disney produced anti-Nazi propoganda.

[emphaticleech]

@Blacksun388 Very correct. You can be an anti-semmite and not be a member of the Nazi Party.

[tokidoki0500]

This part used to bore me as a child... I'm so disappointed in myself now that I've grown up and fell in love with this music.

[jackinatorh]

@tokidoki0500 i know what you mean same with me except it was just the toccata part. i liked the fugue part because it was all pretty patterns to me but now its just a pretty awesome composition i love it

[zxscd]

@tokidoki0500 Its normal that this bores you as a child. It is not to feel ashamed. It would be a real shame that you think that nowadays music is better than this, which aparently, you don't.

[bioniclefan1995]

@tokidoki0500 Ditto.

[lost2mel]

@tokidoki0500 Me too :')

[ArelnaPhoenix89]

@tokidoki0500 same here. they made us watch it in music class at school but now i'm gratefull for it lol i'm an avid lover of classical music now.

[mcclth]

@tokidoki0500 Haha, really? It used to scare the hell out of me around 7:10 and 8:12!

[taiyo888]

Sexiest music ever. 

[arnolioful]

This was composed by Johan Sebastian Bach for organ

[oddvidios]

1:53 WHY WOULD THEY USE SOUSAPHONES IN AN ORCHESTRA? USE REAL TUBAS FOR WALT'S SAKE

[Tavishthebass]

Thumbs up to anyone who feels their soul reverberate with awe and compassion at that the resolution at about 8 minutes.

[hopelessromantic1311]

PURE GENIUS!!!!! I LOVE IT!!!

[Dukeobelding]

It feels good knowing that this movie helped give me an artistic point of view of things, especially considering the fact that I've been watching Fantasia sence I was a baby.

[click4mychannel]

8:11

I always thought that thing was a cupboard (like in Beauty and the Beast).

[captaintaco2345]

I thought this was simply called "Dracula's Theme."

[TheLastMyztery]

@captaintaco2345 It is more commonly seen today as 'Dracula's theme' even though it has nothing to do with that character, it was merely the piece they chose for him. This is Bach's most famous (organ) works, out of some 1,150 pieces he wrote in the Baroque period.

[n00b1356]

and looking at disneys artistically perfomance: i think he is mainly using simple components of the strings: bow and, er, strings. you can discover it all over the video, even in the part between 7:09 and 7:18.

[lorddio99]

It still amazes me that Disney was able to pull off Fantasia, considering the technology he had at his disposal at the time. Also that he enough faith in his audience, that they would enjoy this movie. I love this version of Toccata and Fugue in d minor as well. Bach more then any other composer brings me closer to God.

[DarthRaukrist]

Bach: i can play the organ.

God: thats nice. I can play the sky. And the sea. Oh and the mountains too. Those are fun.

Satan: you all suck. THATS what happens when i get a critical miss?! SERIOUSLY?!!

[TheLastMyztery]

Listening to this makes me feel happy that I grew up with this and did not become a human being over excited by the sound of funk and people screaming.

[KoyasuNoBara]

And suddenly, I realize EXACTLY why the beginning music of the second Phoenix Wright game sounded so familiar.

I mean, I always knew it was some piece of classical music, but I didn't know the title, or where I would have heard it for it to be familiar in the first place.

[silvr90210]

@WishAvalon grats of first comment to best id on youtube :D

[silvr90210]

@silvr90210 best VID srry...

[WishAvalon]

@silvr90210 lol ty :)

[ydoc1469]

im really high

[DarthRaukrist]

the people who talk about how amazing old Disney movies are on Fantasia vids...well, ok- you're right, but possibly for the wrong reasons. For once, Disney here is just like us in the audience- they are simply acknowledging the 10 times EVEN MORE EPIC, SUPREMELY MAGICAL power of the true greats: Beethoven. Bach. Stravinsky. Tchaikovsky. The Rhapsody in Blue Guy. The Night on Bald Mountain Guy. Disney is epic, I will grant that. These guys have a 6th dan Black Belt in Epic.

[mrsillyisbean]

@DarthRaukrist and I guess that walt disney had a 6th dan black belt in realizing that

the talent and potential for their work to be based on, is that of wich has made the most of the

 superior works ever in the history of man kind; however most of their original work was entirely thier own.

[dudewheresmyjew]

This is what made Fantasia so brilliant. You were provided a visual interpretation of a simple classic and yet the visuals are nothing but abstract shapes and colors, yet you create a whole different picture with your imagination.

[coolness06]

Chills. Every time.

[gamefreak2811]

0:00 to 0:09

"LOOK AT ALL THE SHITS I GIVE!"

[SatchmoSings]

@RebmaBoss It's actually Stokowski's own orchestration; he originally recorded it in 1927; he did a lot of Bach organ transcriptions; this was his first and its the most well-known.

[buckweetable]

awesome =)

[Scorpiusgrl]

I love this. Why didn't I ever stayed in my orchestra band; I used to play the flute =(. music is one of my greatest passion in life. I should of pursued this

[Scorpiusgrl]

I love this. Why didn't I ever stayed in my musical band; I used to play the flute =(. music is one of my greatest passion in life.

[aval4123]

hi francesca

[MGsven]

40 peope dont know how to apreciate good music

[MyNameZebra]

@MGsven Maybe some or all of them 40 dislikes could have hated the fact that they never got to see what the people looked like playing that good music.

[gothicgrowler]

Once i knew a priest who said this was satanic... I pitty his soul u.u

[SatchmoSings]

@gothicgrowler The music or the imagery?

[gothicgrowler]

@SatchmoSings the music u_u

[yeahletsparty]

Everytime I saw somebody comment stuff like:

This litterally gives me goosebumps.

I thought they were so ridiculous and exagerated...

now I listen to this and I must say: THIS LITERALLY GIVES ME GOOSEBUMPS

[bk2yu]

@yeahletsparty yah i dont think people just lie randomly about goose bumps... i get goose bumps when its cold out, am i over exagerating?

[yeahletsparty]

@bk2yu I meant I thought people exagerated when they said a song gave them goosebumps

[LinguistTroubadour]

@yeahletsparty Not trying to be too nosy or anything, but don't many songs give you goosebumps?

[katrouge26]

beautiful enchanting

[hopelessromantic1311]

PURE GENIUS!!!!

[Dragontihui]

At 8.05 it feels like you're stepping into hell, just after you saw the gates of heaven.



[silvr90210]

@Dragontihui epic

[nazaxprime]

For the sake of the forum, would someone care to share the name of the conductor?

[gH05t75]

@nazaxprime Leopold Stokowski's your man!

[nazaxprime]

@gH05t75 Thank you kindly, friend. NOTED

[SatchmoSings]

@nazaxprime For the sake of sanity and not being an asshole, could you look this up on "Wikipedia?"

[nazaxprime]

@SatchmoSings I had, It was not for me...

[SatchmoSings]

@nazaxprime Leopold Stokowski is mentioned in the FIRST paragraph; next time, have someone read it to you; I'm just endlessly amazed at the overall lack of ability to find out the most simple stuff from too many "Youtubers."

[nazaxprime]

@SatchmoSings What "first paragraph" are you referring to? Wikipedia? People should not have to leave a site to become informed. I was not unable to find out the information, In fact, I knew shortly after I asked, thanks to a simple web-search, but I certainly don't see the info in the title or description and that is unfortunate. I should be surprised that you are endlessly amazed at the overall lack of ability to find out the most simple stuff from too many "Youtubers"... Yet I am not.

[SatchmoSings]

@nazaxprime What "first paragraph" am I referring to?

I see your literacy is SO compromised, you can't even follow a thread whose entirety is all right in front of you!

"So people shouldn't have to leave a site to become informed?" Spoken like a true illiterate and ignoramus that has no interest in learning much; I can see that looking up stuff is not part of your internalized culture; a statement like that impresses me with the fact that you have absolutely NO interest in learning anything.

[SatchmoSings]

@nazaxprime 02. "Fantasia is a 1940 American animated film produced by Walt Disney and released by Walt Disney Productions. The third feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, the film consists of eight animated segments set to pieces of classical music conducted by Leopold Stokowski, seven of which are performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra. Music critic and composer Deems Taylor introduces each segment in live-action interstitial scenes."

Gawd, are you lame!

[nazaxprime]

@SatchmoSings If you don't want to sound like a moron, You should either swap the "are" and "you" around, or replace the exclamation point with a question mark.

If you don't want to sound like an asshole, you should stop typing.

You know nothing of me, yet you continue to make assumptions about my research habits.

The OP didn't credit the people actually performing the piece. That is shoddy journalism, I was trying to shore up that breach.

For a person nearing retirement age, you sure are petty.

[YourFaceWillDie468]

@nazaxprime "For a person nearing retirement age, you sure are petty."

Isn't it sad when people who should be more mature than you are dreadfully immature?

[nazaxprime]

@YourFaceWillDie468 A little bit.

[sofroniaful]

At 4:22 i see the golden gate bridge. Ever since I was little

[o13sweetboy]

from 8.45 to 9.00 REMINDS ME OF HEAVEN.

[nazaxprime]

@o13sweetboy Wait, when did you go to Heaven?

[o13sweetboy]

@nazaxprime IN MY DREAMS....

[locomike1219]

7:20 they look theyre giving you the finger haha