Bach - Fantasia and fugue in G minor BWV 542 - Van Doeselaar | Netherlands Bach Society

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The Fantasia and fugue in G minor, performed here by Leo van Doeselaar for All of Bach, is one of the few organ works that can accurately be dated. Bach performed this work in Hamburg, where the post of organist at St Jacob’s Church became vacant in 1720. During a recital lasting over two hours, he demonstrated his skills as an organist and struck his audience dumb. One member of that audience was the former organist Reincken, the eminence grise of the Hamburg music scene, who praised Bach’s improvisational art as follows: ‘I thought this skill had died out, but I see it lives on in you’.

For more information on BWV 542 and credits of this production go to https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/bwv/bwv-542/

For the interview with organist Leo van Doeselaar on Fantasia and fugue in G minor go to https://youtu.be/pGb-e1Qbyvo

Recorded for the project All of Bach on October 8th 2013 at St Martin's Church, Groningen. If you want to help us complete All of Bach, please subscribe to our channel https://bit.ly/2vhCeFB and consider donating https://bit.ly/3J5uprM.

This recording was made with financial support from the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft.

All of Bach is a project of the Netherlands Bach Society, with the aim to perform and record all of Bach's works and share them online with the world for free. Visit our online treasury for more videos and background material on https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/allofbach. For concert dates and tickets go to https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/concerts.

Leo van Doeselaar, organ
Instrument: Arp Schnitger, 1692