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Dietrich Buxtehude
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Toccata in D minor, BuxWV 155 Click to Listen [7:4] (A=465)
Surprisingly abrupt and unusual harmonically, the Toccata has multiple sections using the Principal Chorus on the Hauptwerk against the full pedal, with and without the Mixture, Pedal Posaune and Hauptwerk to Pedal coupler. A short section in the middle retreats to the Hinterwerk Gedacktes 8 + Rohrfleute 4 + Octava 2 + Zimbeln 2 Fach + Suffleute 1, and the manuals are coupled near the unusual conclusion which consists of slow triplets over an organ point in the pedal. Instrument: Gottfried Silbermann Organ, Reinhardtsgrimma / Sachsen, Germany (1731) - Samples by Prof. Helmut Maier

Audio track was created with Hauptwerk v. 1 software