Tocatta e Fuga Bach - K.Richter

Bach J.S.- Toccata e fuga BWV 565 - K.Richter org.

Karl Richter (October 15, 1926 February 15, 1981) was a German conductor, organist, and harpsichordist. He was born in Plauen and studied first in Dresden and then Leipzig, where he received his degree in 1949. In the same year, he became organist at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, where Johann Sebastian Bach once held the position as Musical Director. In 1951, he moved to Munich, where he taught at the conservatory and was cantor and organist at St. Mark's Church. He also conducted the Munich Bach Choir starting in 1954 and the Munich Bach Orchestra. In the 1960s and 1970s, he did a great deal of recording and undertook tours to Japan, the United States, and the Soviet Union.

He conducted a wide range of music, but is best remembered today for his interpretations of Johann Sebastian Bach's music. Karl Richter avoided the fluctuations in tempo that were then characteristic of the prevailing Romantic manner of conducting Bach, but otherwise did not make use of historically authentic performance practices, using modern instruments right to the end of his career.

He died of a heart attack at the age of 54.

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• Tocatta
• Fuga
• Johann
• Sebastian
• Bach
• Karl
• Richter
• Conductor
• Organist
• Harpsichordist
• Classical
• Music
• BWV
• 565

[TuliMy]

best version !

[Deliverant]

best "Toccata e fuga" ever written

[Brighteyes1ful]

This gets me every time i hear it, why did composers in those days compose such powerful music that tears at the very being of you?.

[ridemaster101]

lmao went to a church today to don a christmas concert and got a go on the huge pipe organ there, i played this song it was epic :)

[SLCUTAHGUY]

Bravo I love this song.

[Doutrisor]

Prodigieux !!

[Flakevee]

Wich year is this video from ? if any1 knows..

[aninon46]

yo creo firmemente que Bach era un ser de las estrellas, de otra manera como pudo haber interpretado el nacimiento del universo local sino de esta manera???? grandioso, fantastico bravo!!!

[musiloko787]

just amazing there isnt words to describe it

[EnusHolzbein]

Emotions & mathematics...

What a mix...

Krebswendung... Sehr geheim...