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Dietrich Buxtehude
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Fuga in G Major, BuxWV 175 Click to Listen, [3:5]
Fugue in 3 voices and 3 sections. The first uses a carefree subject with 8 entrances, some with modified rhythm on the first note (registration here); the second inverts the subject and also has 8 entrances (registration here); the third mixes both forms of the subject, with 7 entrances of each, sometimes in a quasi-stretto (registration here). Temperament: MeanTone Jacobi, as used in the Schnitger organ in the St. Jacobi church in Hamburg, Germany. Instrument: The Arp Schnitger organ at Eenum in Groningen, The Netherlands (1704) - Samples by Hauptwerk.nl

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