Bach, Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582
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- Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, by Johann Sebastian Bach, performed and visualized by Stephen Malinowski.
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Q: What do the colors mean?
A: The colors indicate different melodic lines in the piece. The part for pedal (the lowest part) is always violet, and there is one stop (starting at about 4:55) that is always blue, but the rest of the colors just indicate different melodic strands (and don't correspond in a consistent way to anything in the score).
Q: What instrument is this?
A: The sound comes from two Ahlborn-Galanti organ modules. Most of the stops come from the A-G Silbermann module, but the 32-foot pedal stops and the contrasting stop (the one at 4:55) come from the A-G Romantic module.
Q: What are the gray bars?
A: The gray bars show the theme of the passacaglia (the first part of which is also the main subject of the fugue). The colored bars show the note duration of the performance, but the grey bars (which is bigger so that you can see it when it's behind the performed notes) show the duration of the notated version of the theme in its standard form (which is often very different from how it appears in the piece at a given point).
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Stephen Malinowski that is a wonderful performance BWV 582
Ahhhhh, the memories...
Oh bro, I am your fan, when you will do your Next álbum
I am your fan I like your music you are the best
You wish
@@francoortiz8952 I'll have one out soon. It's rap and rock mostly though.
He died before y tube
no wonder critics and historians all claim that J.S. Bach is the greates composer without contest. he was on a whole other level of understanding music
lol they do not all claim that.
Just think- this genius wrote this at the age of 18. His mind set was from another realm to which no one can fully comprehend to this day. To me this is the greatest piece of organ literature ever written. Thanks for producing this!
Or he was channeling spirits (like how all the "entertainment" we consume in this fallen world is produced).
@Iamdust78 Bro really claimed music is demonic
Welp, looks like the neighbors will be listening to Bach today.
mine always listen to bach
I love the gray bars, they really help to understand the fugue
+NotATroll What do they represent, the octave?
+Themostamazinguy The theme.
smalin Oh cool!
What exactly gives an organ this distinct sound. I know there are a lot of stops, but this seems to be the go-to kind of organ sound. I can't really tell what it is.
The main thing that makes a single note on an organ sound different from that of other instruments is that it's very stable: you press a key, the note starts and, once it's gotten started, it sounds pretty much the same until you release the key. The main thing that makes one stop on an organ sound different from another stop is that the relative strength of the harmonics is different for every stop. Added to that, organs are in churches, so there's a lot of reverberation in the sound. If you put a few hundred people playing recorders, flutes, and other wind instruments in an organ loft, and told them to play completely without expression (that is, without varying their tone), it would sound a lot like an organ. There are distinctive types of flutes that are used in organs, but the bulk of the difference comes from other factors.
your videos mean happiness to me
What a sweet thing to say. Thank you.
11:55 , the legendary neapolitan sixth chord... Such a historically substantial peice of music theory in just a single chord. For me this whole work just leads to that one chord, every time I hear it after the 10 minutes of the previous variations i feel the goosebumps coming.
-Bach Is not a stream, but a sea
-Beethoven
I've played it on pedal harpsichord, and it's pretty nice --- a lot clearer sounding. But there are good aspects to the organ version too; I think they're complementary.
04:51 - 05:32 is literally fascinating.
I agree, it's definitely one of my favorite parts
Absolutely!!!!
I couldn't agree more!
4:54 and 5:53 just beats Chopin, Liszt, etc. You name it. That part just beats every pianist.
Ironically, it's from 5:53 to 6:13 that the best part comes in
I Promise
I was trying to figure out why this allows so much more insight into the music than a sheet of notes to a non-pro musician. I expect that it is the fact that the temporal nature of "filling out" the active notes with highlights and colors (attack, sustain, release), along with the fact that the creator of this video took the time to split out the lines into a logical arrangement of each (theme, maybe) into easily readable lines in vertical position. In any case, it is fascinating to hear/watch...AND, for me, Bach IS the master of writing for the great organ (no snide comments from "lookers on", please).
Nice performance, BTW.
I totall agree.
it’s also that it gives insight into how the organ is played - what are the foot pedaled notes, what are the keyboards - and hints about stops and registration
Never thought music could be so visually enjoyable.
Mixing music with vision is an amazing world
Bach wrote this masterpiece at the age of 22.- Absolutely unbelievable.
"...at the age of 22". How do you know?
geir øyvind eskeland The most probable year of its composition is 1707.- He was 22.
geir øyvind eskeland
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passacaglia_and_Fugue_in_C_minor,_BWV_582
smalin The piece was inspired by the now famous Passacaglia in d minor by Buxtehude.In 1705 Bach walked 320 km from Arnstadt to Luebeck to meet him.
Sorry for my bad English. Thank you so far, but I like to know where do you get the information? Source?
When I turned from pop to classics as a teenager, I bought my first vinyl with Bach's Toccata and Fugue. But the piece I really fell in love with was the Passacaglia! After 43 years it's still my favorite. The piano transcription of Igor Zhukov is great too. Being a non musician I appreciate Your optical animations a great deal! Thanks a lot for Your grand job.
Ullrich Herz
4:54 sounds beautiful 👌
This is my favorite piece of both Bach and in classical music in general.
why? :O
Is it still?
@@uwufffsunchez2626 this is both always the same thing and always a different thing with constant powerful variations
th-cam.com/video/qTWPjJfgULk/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=Jo%C3%A3oBarradas This version is transcendental to me, hope you can enjoy it
The visualisation of the 'thinning-out' (5 mins in) is spectacular
That’s my favourite part of any piece of music.
Must have blown the congregation of his Lutheran parish away.
Going to Church can be fun.
A Passacaglia was a musical form on which a bassline was stated as a theme, and then repeated with variations played over the top of it. A Chaconne is similar, but with a chord progression instead of a bassline. #themoreyouknow
Could you confirm that please ?? Thank you, i am looking for the differences since quite a long time
I think the definition is a little more flexible, at least for the time. Otherwise wouldn't Handel's Passacaglia count as a Chaconne instead?
I have no words. Perhaps the most extraordinary piece of music ever.
That bass pedal variation at 10:37 always blows me away.
On the subject of making the world a better place, I'd be hard pressed to come up with a name of someone who has had as much success in that regard as Johann Sebastian Bach. Some other figures to consider may include: Adam Smith, William Shakespeare, Leonardo, and perhaps a few other names come to mind. Interestingly, Bach wasn't trying to make a better world. He was trying to provide for his family, and he was trying with every composition, to glorify God in the highest way possible. And in this last endeavour, I think he succeeded like no man before or since. Incidentally, I believe that those of us who have the ability to play Bach's music, ultimately share in bringing glory to God, whether or not that is what we are intending to do. You Smalin, with your brilliant system of animating musical scores, have done more for meaningful pedagogy in music than any ten people I know. You have made the greatest music accessible for people who have difficulty reading music, and more importantly, you have created a visual reference for music's most important elements. I'm thinking particularly about texture. Whereas I would have to teach texture to my students in order to arrive at a logical performance practice for any given piece, your animations instantly make it clear. I expect my students to be able to justify every decision they make in performance by tying their performance to theory. So now when a student and I study theory, I often make a point of showing one of your videos. I'm certain that these videos will be used more and more in academic settings in the years to come. In fact, in 2008, I gave a presentation on the subject of music, cognition, and memory, and I used one of your videos. While the students liked my presentation, I think they were much more impressed with your video, and the long term implications of including them in their teaching. You have created a wonderful tool. Congratulations and thank you.
Hearing how much use you've made of my work warms my heart.
koyunbaba73 it's a great way to show off the skills a musician has worked for.
Please email me if you'd give me permission to quote you on my web site.
Of course you may quote me! I want your videos to be seen all over the world!
Can you please email me your name and tell me where you teach? See www.stephenmalinowski.com/contact.html for my email address.
Stephen - i think your performance is lovely, and the animation is SO helpful in hearing what is happening.
Thanks!
A part of me just wants to do nothing and listen to this all day and I'm not even that into classical music, maybe I should listen to it more...
I’ve been there, when I first discovered classical when I was 18, it was so astonishing it was all I listened to ever since!! There’s still music I’m discovering to this day, and in 25 now.
Baroque* not classic but yeah
Not a bad idea. 😃
@@constantinparadan541 Baroque music IS classical music.
@@JcFiscus42 The discoveries never end.
4:54 Oh my god!
Still one of my all-time favourite Bach pieces - and the visual representation by Stephen Malinowski add another dimension! Just love it!
Absolutely one of the greatest pieces of music ever written! Thanks for posting and thanks to Johann Sebastian Bach!
I seem to be in some kind of a Bach fugue marathon right now. First I listened to Toccata and Fugue in D minor, then Little Fugue in G minor, and now this. I feel like the Count from Sesame Street.
"ONE flat, ah ah ah! TWO flats, ah ah ah! THREE flats, ah aha ah!"
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Go for the Well-Tempered Clavier, the 7 toccatas bwv 910-916 and the Art of the the Fugue. (Glenn Gould for all)
I looked that up, but it sounded so wrong.
I love Bach, and I love piano, but Bach being played on a piano is just so wrong.
This is what makes life worth living.
KEWL.
Yesterday, I randomly remembered this video I've seen in middle school. It has been seven years. Back in 2016, I had to describe this video (and the music) for a test in music class.
What do you think of it now? I keep coming back to it often lol
I think this is possibly the cleverest piece ever written!
Added to my "Legendary videos" playlist :)
Have you seen the recent re-make?
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The fugue... a scream of passion and the perfection of a mosaic, joined together...my God...
my ears cried as it is just the most beautiful thing they never heard
Imo. The greatest piece of music ever.
I place it alongside BWV 548 & BWV 552
@@andrewashdown3541 BWV 140 is my next favourite at the moment
@@cosmofoxgaming1268 which is a cantata, of course. It wld be difficult to pick any one cantata but those I would consider might include: 42, 80, 180, 182, 70, 71, 63, 66, 131 ... and many more!
@@andrewashdown3541 all sublime
I bet Bach never wanted to end his fugues, just wanted to keep writing and writing. But when it comes time to end the piece, the man sure knew how to do it well. He has some of the coolest counterpoint in his fugue codas, I especially like what he does with the bass voice in those
I don't think you'd say that if you studied their structure more. They may feel like they just go on and on, but the reason that they don't feel aimless or repetitive is that there's a structure/design that makes sense as a whole. It's not "just keep doing fugue stuff until you feel like stopping and then add an ending," but rather "there are N of possibilities with these materials that I'd like to explore, so we do possibility 1, possibility 2, possibility 3 ... possibility N, and then we're ready to finish it off." A few of his earliest fugues (many of which are no longer believed to have been written by him) are long and aimless, but by the time he was in his first master period, they're pretty tight (even if they're long).
@@smalinvery insightful comment
When I was a kid I fell in love with Bach's music, in part because my perception at the time was that through him I had understood music: it was a series of intricate "staircases". Thank you for these videos.
Yes! I use it to teach High Schoolers about passacaglia and fugues -- passacaglias being a somewhat simpler form to hear and understand than fugues are. Showing them how the same musical material is used and exploited. Hopefully showing them how the composer is playing with musical ideas, resulting not just in enjoyment, but what I like to call "delight", maybe even "joy" -- and every once in a while, "bliss". Not that I succeed very often... In college our Glee Club sang a concert at a church in Bakersfield that consisted of all Bach (including the motet Jesu, meine freude). The audience was scant, but during "Jesu" the choir and the director both felt this "taking off" feeling, that they were actually "channelling" Bach, that they weren't just singing, but communicating. Some of them (in small groups) spoke to each other about it afterwards, and at the next rehearsal, the director expressed his astonishment about it. It became the legend of "Bach in Bakersfield". I'm not sure if it was because of, or in spite of, the size of the audience. It's the kind of thing that all performers strive for.
Starting with passacaglias is a good idea! Thanks for the tip.
I always return to these earlier videos, which helped teach me to appreciate polyphonic music. There are later designs that I enjoy as well, but this scheme just seems so much cleaner and visually appealing than some of the newer ones, which visually distract me. Everything here seems so clearly laid out and works beautifully for Bach especially. Strange to think of how nostalgic my connection to some of these videos is!
Agree. The newer fancy visuals often obscure what notes are played and when.
That and I think these older schemes just look better aesthetically. There were a few other great schemes: I think the Debussy Arabesque looks perfect for the music, and the Brahms piano quartet was fantastically rendered. The Nancarrow ones were great too!
I agree. Beautifully illustrates the fugue voices and ultimately how to comprehend, assimilate and project for the player and listener. I would think composers and conductors also would benefit greatly. Graphic illustration of "data" seems to contribute much useful information to build upon vast complexity. Again, deep gratitude to @smalin for this practical as well as aesthetic contribution to culture.
"I'm not trying to manipulate people. I'm just making videos."
This will go down in history as words of truth!
This is by far my favourite Bach organ piece, next to the great Fugue in G minor, both of which I listen to everyday. There is nothing with the quality of these recordings, Our organist at Church places this as a recessional piece at the end of Mass, and I am transfixed, not only because of the beauty of this piece of music, but because my Cathedral size parish Church (built by Hanson consecrated in 1850) who's inspiration was Pugin is ornate and high Victorian Gothic. The two are wedded in perfect harmony. I love this piece by the greatest composer who has ever lived!
Bars 120-128, 5:11 - 5:32, are sublime, I've never heard anything like it in all of Bach, and no other recording scratches my itch like this one. The tones you chose make it sound like it belongs in 2001: A Space Odyssey. And the visual representation so pure, a perfect accompaniment. Bravo
Superbly played and presented. The electronic organ offers much better clarity of the voices than the large, traditional instruments often used for this piece.
Just WOW on every level. Absolute music mastery.
Justin Scalise yes
4:54 and 5:12 are out of this world
Yes, indeed. Both the music and the visuals feel like climbing the steps to Heaven. I also like the fact, that the main motif always remains through the piece, also in this part. The motif merges every part of this piece to one big piece.
@@eric-the-funny-baron ground bass, innit.
@@fearworks7249 Yes, exactly, I mean the ground bass😁. The melody of it almost always stays the same, so it creates the very base of the whole music piece.
@DФПiТД РЦИж Who do you think is making constellations, Bach or SMalin?
@@eric-the-funny-baron Go and listen to these two pieces which were directly influenced by this work. Beethoven 32 variations in C minor ,for piano. And Brahms, the 4th movement of his 4th symphony in E Minor.
I broke the song into sections
0:08 - First Section (Passacaglia)
0:31 - Second Section
1:14 - Third Section
1:34 - Fourth Section
1:54 - Fifth Section
2:13 - Sixth Section
2:34 - Seventh Section
2:54 - Eighth Section
3:13 - Ninth Section
3:34 - Tenth Section
3:55 - Eleventh Section
4:15 - Twelfth Section
4:35 - Thirteenth Section
4:54 - Fourteenth Section
5:11 - Fifthteenth Section
5:33 - Sixteenth Section
5:53 - Seventeenth Section
6:12 - Eighteenth Section
6:35 - Nineteenth Section
6:56 - Twentieth Section
7:19 - Twenty-first Section (Fugue)
0:08 - Thema
0:31 - Variation I
0:53 - Var. II
1:14 - Var. III
1:34 - Var. IV
1:54 - Var. V
2:13 - Var. VI
2:34 - Var. VII
2:54 - Var. IIX
3:13 - Var. IX
3:34 - Var. X
3:55 - Var. XI
4:15 - Var. XII
4:35 - Var. XIII
4:54 - Var. XIV
5:11 - Var. XV
5:33 - Var. XVI
5:53 - Var. XVII
6:12 - Var. XIIX
6:35 - Var. XIX
6:56 - Var. XX
7:19 - Et fuga
Very close, though.
As an aside, something funny that Bach did is that he had twenty-one variations (including the theme) and twelve entries of the theme in the fugue, 12 reversing 21. He loved his symbolism.
I am practicing this piece for a recital in April...I was trained at Juliard and Friends University to play the Organ...my first recietal piece was Bach Tocatta D MINOR....this piece is very hard but practice practice practice!!
When you were trained at Juilliard, didn't they teach you how to spell it?
smalin While I respect you as the uploader of this video, that could very well by a simple typo rather an actual spelling mistake.
Wyatt Peters There are two things that argue against that. One is the nature of the misspelling: there are two letters wrong (Juilliard, not Juliard), and typing a single L in place of a double L is not a common typo. The second is that misspelling Juilliard is something that lots of people do but something I've _never_ seen a real Juilliard graduate do. So I'm suspicious.
smalin Oh sorry, i thought you were referring to his misspelling of toccata.
Wyatt Peters Heh-heh. No, graduates of Juilliard sometimes misspell toccata.
MONUMENTAL. Thank you Master B.A.C.H.
Believe it or not, it sounds even better when played on a huge pipe organ in a gigantic medaeval cathedral!!
altareggo no shit Sherlock 😂
0:08 - Passacaglia
7:19 - Fugue
Wonderful I love the way Bach constructs a beautiful melody from the Pedal notes , he even carries it on into the Fugue I first heard it in 1960 in Germany in Freiburg cathedral I think, bliss !
That is brilliant; shows off Bach's genius even more than just listening (and you are pretty smart to have produced it!)
Thanks very much for sharing it, it's wonderful!
Tim
What a wonderful representation of the complexity of the playing! Well done!
Bach laughs at metal musicians who think they are heavy.
I'm pretty sure everyone laughs at metal musicians
@@ShearsOfAtropos lol
@@ShearsOfAtropos why
@@ShearsOfAtroposbruh
this video puts the complexity of this masterpiece in clear perspective
Also, simplicity.
I'm just blown away by the genius of this every time I listen. The visual representation shows how incredible this piece is.
The fugue gives me goosebumps every time
Frisson, aint it wonderful ;-).
I love that you highlighted the passacaglia theme throughout it! Great work!!!
I ignore any people that hate this piece because it is the best piece ever!!!!!!
If you listen carefully, this music speaks to you!
to see how all the parts are played by one person on one complicated instrument is a joy!
9:10-940 perfection
0:00 to 12:36 my friend 🤗
Till the end of pedal section
Thanks for these visualizations - the only way for a layman to see how mathematically and musically perfect this music is.
I got to hear this piece live. It was magnificent.
Almost makes me cry. He was the god of music.
I love how you visualize the theme.
What a trip. Thank you so much for this, and all your work.
sounds so dramatic i love it
Never realized this piece ended and i was still in that bliss. Excellent work!
I remember the first time I heard this live: the opening chords of the first variation nearly knocked me back into my seat. When played on a big enough organ, this piece will rattle your bones.
Thank you for posting. The sound is excellent.
My favourite version of this piece, thank you Mr Malinowski!
Of course Richter's version is the best for me too but i wish his recordings were newer
This piece is one of my personal favourites, and this 'back to the basics' animation style suits the organ perfectly. I also liked that the ground is always visible in grey, even though it sometimes appears in other voices or with a different rhythm... it's a beautiful detail. Thankyou!
I'm glad that you decided to stay with the classic visualization as I think it suits the organ best, along with the moving circle one, but this was very well done, thanks! Been waiting for this one.
For anyone looking; 7:20 is the fugue
Thanks! Just out of interest, from a music theory perspective, am I correct in thinking that this piece is actually essentially one long fugue?
@@MrVaskor no, it isn't because the first part is written in the passacaglia form. However the main theme in the two composition is the same and that's the reason you could consider this work as an individual whole, but it isn't a longe fugue.
this is basically a 50 track EP of Bach VIP remixes of his own tune
what a nice piece of music, thanks for the visualization
This piece introduced me to Bach and the world of music at the age of six and still (now through this ingenious visualisation) there are so many new aspects to be discovered.
fugues are awesome because there's always that anchor - the repeating "voice" or riff, as seen in modern genres such as jazz fusion and progressive rock.
5:53 you are a great organ player!
That's actually far from the most difficult part of the piece
That’s actually way easier than it seems
He is good, but playing fast does NOT make you a good musician. That’s one of the most annoying music stereotypes.
On another note, Smalin, your contributions to TH-cam have greatly enriched my life and my experiences with music. You have done an amazing service to us all.
I love these videos... I get excited when I see the music moving in from the right before my ear hears it... Pregnant silence filled with coloured blocks that then take flight... thank you for these videos.
I have just discovered this piece, and I love it so much. Thanks for the beautiful video.
You're very welcome. Glad you are enjoying it.
Thank you for all beautiful music and video , thank you
So simple yet so excellent. Love this one.
Thanks so much for this. The scematics really helped me, especially to understand and follow the ground base theme more fully.
Holy Bach.
I love Bach's organ works, and this is one of my absolute favourites. The Passacaglia is a simple theme that endures throughout the piece and undergoes various additions, embellishments and transformations that are quite transcendental.
[Sorry, that sounds pompous, but was not intended to be.]
The Fugue that follows is a masterpiece of invention; so much so, that I return again and again to rediscover new nuances in this magnificent work. As you may deduce.
I LOVE IT! :-)
You're a hard one to pin down.
Pim
Well done! Bravo!
I read that during his lifetime, J. S. Bach was more famous as an organist than as a composer. It must have been glorious to hear the master himself performing his works!
One of my favourite Bach organ pieces.
Malinowski's experience is really worthwile: it helps to deep inside music for the analphabets like me. Thank you very much...and go on!.
Stephen Malinowski ---> Bravo!
Philip, this is a masterpiece representing a masterpiece!
I love this piece greatly, and your representation of it is absolutely magnificent. The inversion of the Passacaglia theme is extremely obvious, and reinforces the brilliance of Bach's ideas. Thank you so much for your visualisations; they are quite inspirational!
This is not just music my good sir, this is a wonderful combination of music, visual, and performance art. Bravo!
I listen to this at least once every day. I never get tired of it. What a brilliant composition and performance of a great song. Thanks smalin
Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen
- Same thing with me, except I listen to Toccata and Fugue in d minor everyday instead.
Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen It is not a song. Songs have words, this PIECE is beyond words....
Gliese 436-B- That is what I started with. After I found Passacaglia and Fugue, I haven't gone back. In my opinion, this is a much more complex piece.
Your videos are phenomenal... and they have tremendous value as a teaching tools. I have shown them to many people to explain the genius of Bach and the nature of counterpoint and the concept of a fugue. Thank you so much for you work in putting this beautiful video together.
Thank you for posting this. I imagine that it took quite some time to add the colors. Thank you for taking the time so that we could better appreciate the genius of Bach.
these bar graphs are so cool
This would make a hell of a level in Super Mario.
Castlevania all the way.
LordLukste indeed
He was a genius CODER, that happened to be a brilliant musician at the same time.
I agree, Bach was more of a genius mathematician who came up with rules and methods for basically printing complex fugues and pieces.
@@WiegrafFolles Quite rude of you to call people deluded and misguided. Bach, as any educated man of his time, was trained under the 7 seven liberal arts:
The Trivium (arts of language, pertinent to the mind): Logic, Grammatic and Rhetoric;
and the Quadrivium (arts of quantity, pertinent to the matter or substance), the Quadrivium being divided into two categories: discontinuous quantity or number, where arithmetic and MUSIC are included, the description of those being:
Arithmetic: Theory of the numbers;
Music: Application of the Theory of the numbers.
The other two being about continuous quantity or extension: Geometry and astronomy.
So, That's how a man in the time of Bach - or anyone invested with a classical education - understood music, at least in the study (and there composition of it), an application of arithmetic.
Besides that, if you grow to have any familiarity with musical theory, specially of the Baroque period, it is clear how important a knowledge of mathematics is, and no one's able to write a fugue, the these masterfully written by Bach, without a superb grasp of mathematics. For starters, you have to know how to divide the value of the notes a compass, as for them to fit into the tempo, you have to know the note intervals, and how to scale then (subtraction and addition), you have to be good at dividing elements flawlessly, as to create harmony and symmetry, in sum, it is absolutely necessary to be a good mathematician to be able to compose like Bach, or any Baroque/Renaissance master for that matter.
This is at once amazing and inspiring! I am in awe...