Buxtehude: Passacaglio BuxWV 161

Played by David Warren Steel on the 2001 Karl Wilhelm organ in Paris-Yates Chapel at the University of Mississippi. Recorded 4 November 2007, video by Joel Bremner.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• pipe
• organ
• baroque
• early
• music
• buxtehude
• passacaglia
• passacaille

[pipeorganloverNJP]

You can tell that Bach was inspired from this.

[paqman67]

There's no such thing as a "true" performance. Even genuises like Bach changed their performance techniques on same pieces they wrote based on instrument, acoustics, etc. The way the performer played it ws a tic faster than what I'm used to hearing, but it was excellently played!! better slightly fast than mind numbingly slow & boring!!!zzzz...

[TONVAR]

Demian

[yasujiwakamatsu]

C'est tres bien,excellence!

[kourosh89]

@LiberateEireIRA Composers used to steal from each other all the time and no one cared. Interestingly, Bach's close friend Telemann was one of the first composers to pursue exclusive publication rights for his own works.

[kourosh89]

This sounds a lot like Bach's Passacaglia in C minor.

[Blightyish]

Far too fast and no phrasing at all. It seem the perfomer wants to express absoutely nothing by his playing. So superficial and typically non-European.The organist is really not in any contact with his music.

[Blightyish]

Far too fast and no phrasing at all. It seem the perfomer wants to express absoutely nothing by his playing.

[ml3229]

I VERY much enjoyed this performance - BRAVO!!

[1banders]

@freakjobb Like Handel, Mattheson, Telemann and other German composers of his day, Bach was influenced by the music of Buxtehude, but Buxtehude was not Bach's teacher. Bach didn't take lessons from him. Bach was already an accomplished, professional organist and composer before he ever even saw Buxtehude.

Bach studied with his eldest brother, organist J. C. Bach, and at the Latin school in Lueneburg.

[TheJackHarkness]

@LiberateEireIRA lol I know. I first listened to Bach's passacaglia and then to this one and I can conclude that Bach's sounds better lol :D

[LiberateEireIRA]

@TheJackHarkness yeah i was agreeing with you. I said "...like...what?" because the similarity is just so striking (or at least the first few bars). I'm surprised he didn't sue :)