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Rodney Myrvaagnes <[log in to unmask]>
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.I think that anyone who doubts that the Passacaglia would work on a
clavichord has never heard Joel Speerstra.

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 Rodney Myrvaagnes
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On Sun, Feb 21, 2016, at 18:49, Ibo Ortgies wrote:
> Though Forkel, 1802, p. 59-60, does in fact list the Passacaglia among
> "Die
> besten Orgelcompositionen Joh. Seb. Bachs" (The best compositions for
> organ
> by JSB), he mentions it (still under the sub-headline "1) Große Präludien
> und Fugen mit obligatem Pedal. ") as
> "... eine sehr kunstreich gearbeitete Passacaglia (Fig. 17.), die aber
> mehr
> für zwey Claviere und Pedal als für die Orgel ist."
> 
> " ... a very artfully crafted [elaborated/set] Passacaglia (fig. 17),
> which, however, is more [apt?/meant?] for two claviers and pedal than for
> the organ."
> 
> Clearly Forkel understood in this case the frequent term "2 Clav. e
> Pedal"
> as indicating a stringed keyboard instrument.
> Just a few lines below, Forkel also lists the "Six sonatas or trios for
> two
> claviers with the obligate pedal" which he describes a having served
> Wilhelm Friedemann Bach to prepare him to become the famous organ player.
> Organ playing technique was taught and studied in Germany inn Bach's time
> on stringed keyboard instruments with pedal, certainly nearly always a
> pedal clavichord, an instrument that was according Adlung so common, that
> every child would know one.
> 
> 
> Btw, free "organ pieces" like the passacaglia or the trio sonatas that
> both
> in terms of temperament and compass exceeded the possibilities of by far
> most organs in Bach's time (meantone, short octave, upper pedal compass
> only to c'), would have made a great show piece on the pedal harpsichord
> in
> one of the coffee houses.
> 
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