J. S. Bach, Toccata and Fuga D minor BWV 565 - Jean-Baptiste Dupont REACTION!

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[@5Mary2]

Imagine, the brainpower Bach had to use to create this composition, in our day he would be called a superstar.

[@Xemptuous]

The craziest part is that he likely wrote this in a few days. His fugues show how crazy his brain was. He once improvized a 6 voice fugue just to prove a point, but he was also a badass as a youth, often ditching school and getting in fights. Amazing dude.

[@fuge90]

Bach was 18 years old when he wrote BWV 565 @@Xemptuous

[@eddiemperor]

Imagine writing this while you are poor yet have many of your kids running around to learn from you and yet have to write a Mass for tomorrow's service, at the same time you are writing fugues, cantatas and concertos for violin. I mean, Sebastian was the ultimate genius in all Music History, how in all hells does someone live to have he brain power to deliver a catalogue of music as BACH did in his tome on earth???

[@granddaddy_funk]

​@@XemptuousFr these guys were really like jazz musicians of their time. Improv was huge in baroque music. Like people spend their lives studying this music, and I wonder how much bach though about it. It's probably an afterthought for him lol. What a beast

[@andrewashdown3541]

And this was just a demo piece. Just an intro to the likes of BWV 552, 548, 582 ...

[@Quakeboy02]

The expression "Pulling out all the stops" actually originated from this piece, because it's begun with all the stops pulled out to make it a very powerful piece of music.

[@myke49]

That organ was built by a late 19th century French organ builder called Aristide Cavaille-Coll. His instruments are magnificent - even the quite small ones. And that organist really knows his way around Bach and the organ. Brilliant. Mike in Oz

[@brucefelger4015]

The instrument is the building!

[@lena-mariaglouis-charles7036]

This guy is a brilliant concert organist! Sitting in an old, huge European cathedral, listening to this kind of beautiful performance will without fail give you an out of body experience, as the gorgeous music vibrates throughout your whole being! I highly recommend it! Great reaction, my Friend!💕

[@cellevangiel5973]

This is a couple of hundred years old. What have we got ? He wrote and performed this when he was aiming for a function as organist. And he got it. Can imagine what an impression that must have made then. It still blows us away now. And it it is not just brainpower, then your fingers will be to late. It is finger-power, they know it. And we are proud because we can fly to the moon. 200 Years ago they build organs like this. I think we should be a little humble.

[@TheLtData]

I love to see how completely amazed and stunned you are when seeing those organ players😊 Stunning performance. And let's not forget the genius of the composer!

[@baskoning9896]

Just imagine, back in the 1700s, people where simple, lived in little houses. Then they entered a church. The biggest building they ever seen. With light coming thru colored glass. An organ: playing. How awe-struck they must have been.

[@Scratchydoesmusic]

they believed in magic back then, they would not be surprised and would just think of it as more magic

[@oldman3319]

I am a prog metal head. From my early years i grew up with Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin and the list goes on. But i also love classical music like this. It's the astounding melodies. My favorites are Bach, Vivaldi, Handel and Locatelli. Remember, all the music we hear today, originate from classical music! Greetings from the Netherlands.

[@soozb15]

This was a terrific reaction. At first you were surprised, then in awe, and gradually sat back and allowed the sound to wash over you. It’s being said that classical music is dying, but there is definitely an appetite for it out there, especially when people can enjoy the music in the informal comfort of their own homes. Having said that, I hope you can get to some real-life concerts sometime. Musicians and composers need our support!

[@MichaelYoder1961]

Bach was a genius and his fugues are works of art.

[@MLWitteman]

This was amazing! Finally getting a proper view on the action behind these great instruments. I’ve got the privilege to live in the city of Haarlem. And it’s the place where you can find one of the worlds greatest piper organs ever built: the great Christian Müller organ in the St. Bavo church. Dating back to the 18th century. It was so famous that a young Mozart travelled all the way to Haarlem, to get a chance to play it. I’ll try and share a video of this magnificent instrument up here.

[@youpie24]

My church had an organist who did this piece regularly when i was 4-8 years old. I still hunt sleeping on this music, it was magical and most rest-giving.This was a true blessing, I never thanked him, nobody thanked him, i guess. My God, true blessings go without recognition.....

[@SAM-dg3vd]

I love how mathematical Bach is... all the repeating and the harmonies. If someone out there isn't familiar with the classical composers and would like an entertaining introduction to them... rent "Fantasia" from Disney. It's a bunch of really famous classical pieces animated by the Disney workshop with the images the pieces created in their heads :) Awesome...

[@tommotom7324]

Bach was 22 years old when he composed this.

[@susantownsend8397]

I love your reaction. I’ve always maintained that I don’t care about harps but I know there are pipe organs in heaven because God wants to listen to some Bach.

[@tuproc61]

Absolute great organ player. I love organ concerts and go many times. Live is realy impressive the sound is so big and overwhelming.

[@wrorchestra1]

The little buttons on the left and right of the keyboard are called stops. To play the organ to its fullest you have to "Pull out all the stops", hence the phrase. That being said, you never play with all the stops out as it sounds bad so the majority are pulled out to give the full sound.

[@G02372]

Bach was beyond a genius and this guy played it impeccably ❤

[@richardtodd7295]

As I mentioned in a comment about the video of the Electric guitars playing this piece, Bach wrote in the early 1700's! He used it to test organs. I believe this organ is called a tracker organ. This means that every key stroke activates a series of levers, that physically open a valve to allow air to flow into the pipe to make the sound. This requires the organist to have real strength in his/her hands. This organ has 3 sets of keys, called manuals. At times, the manuals are linked so that pressing one key may activate 2 or 3 keys with different pipes putting out the correct sound. The longer the pipe, the lower the sound. I think the longest, and therefore the lowest sounding pipes on this organ , are 32 feet long. The smallest, are the size of a pencil. An organ built since 1900 can use electricity to open and close the valves on the pipes. All Hammond organs work this way, as well as theater pipe organs, which are incredible instruments. I was blessed to be able to attend the San Francisco Fox theater before it closed, and hear it's Wurlitzer pipe organ. I was seated about 30 feet from the 64(!) foot pipes. Every time those pipes were used, it felt like someone was beating on my chest! Amazing!

[@resonantdave]

Imagine thinking ankles are scandalous and an apple is a rare treat, then some dude in a wig makes the whole wall scream at you. This shit would have broken a peasant's mind.

[@PrinsPrygel]

**MIND B L O W N**

[@kaysonpiano]

hahaha I absolutely love your comment. Gave me a good laugh.

[@edwinfriedl2446]

Remember 99.999% of sound systems plus youtube's capabilities CANNOT reproduce the lowest pedal notes. You are only hearing a fraction of the bass (in part because of some notes are out of most people's hearing range). As someone else said go and listen to a fine quality pipe organ and feel it. We are in a large stone church probably weighing thousands of tons. Our pipe organ can make it shake.

[@slavaukraini404]

Bach is the foundation stone of all music ever since but he just wanted nice songs for church on Sunday.

[@stormhawk3319]

Bach probably had the highest IQ of any musician that there’s ever been when you listen to his music.

[@phila3884]

Bach. The skinny-In his time his compositions were known only to a handful of underground admirers. This, arguably his most famous piece, was first published *83 years* after his death, and didn't get a major public performance until 1840- *90 years* after his death. That would be like the Beatles' greatest hits not coming out until 2057....

[@marycasanova8905]

I have this LP. Amazing. This is what it was meant to be. We taped it and put it in our alarm clock. This is how my sister and I woke up every morning.

[@stephandagelet5545]

nailded it!

[@johannessilver8653]

In Rouen Ouen France there is maybe the grandest organ in the world if not in Notre Dame Paris - both Cavaille-Coll like this one. Check how Kalevi Kiviniemi plays Widor Toccata there. Be sure to have good bass sound headphones but do not hurt your ears....the power is amazing when the pedal stop Bombarde 32' (in 6:40 the tap) speaks the voice of God to Widor who composed that masterpiece for pipe organs.

[@richardrejmer8721]

Imagine being an 18th Century peasant. . Living on the land. . The only sounds you heard every day were the sounds of nature and human voices. Once or twice a year (if you were lucky) you might hear someone play a simple flute, or fiddle piece . . But that was it. . Then imagine you travel to the 'big city' and go to a cathederal that has a pipe organ. . . THIS is the 18th century equivalent of a WALL OF MARSHALL AMPS! BASS that punches you in the chest and makes your guts vibrate! The WALLS ARE LITERALLY shaking and the bench you are sitting on is trembling with the POWER of the sound. . And such sublime and complex sounds! Nothing like the peasant music you were used to. . NO WONDER the poor believed everything their clergy told them. . . The power of their god was there for the uneducated peasant to experience.

[@G02372]

What a brilliant guy 😮

[@cornwalldragon4617]

Not only do I like music played on a pipe organ but I also like the mechanics of the organ. There's nothing electronic except for the blower. It's all mechanical from the keys. pedals, stops, swell pedal, and all of those pull down pedals.

[@michaelpennington7800]

Your reaction is priceless!

[@mattesrocket]

just wanted to suggest you this piece of music and then found this. It's for me the best piece of music in the world, although others are also extremely great. I heard this the first time in my childhood maybe 35 or 40 years ago and since then listened to it maybe 500 times, so I know every note. This interpretation you heared is the best in my opinion you can get now, ...there are many interpretations where the rythme and speed of all these parts are not so fitting, too fast or without the right tension etc. When I was 10 years or so my grandmother took me twice to an organ concert to one of the biggest cathedrals in the world (see link I add in next comment here) and we listened to such organ music live. You can't imagine, how this sounds in reality in a big cathedral. I detected some echos coming from some sides of the church inside and these echos created a kind of additional melody within the main song...

[@Just-another-opinion]

Great performance of course! But there are many good organists. My dad plays Bach on the organ in churches in Schiedam (The Netherlands) for nearly 60 years now (he is 70), well he is not nearly as good as Jean-Baptiste Dupont, but this piece is not that hard actually. Bach wrote way more difficult pieces. So, it's about the composer, not the overwhelming power of an organ or organist. ;-) Visit the Netherlands (or Germany) and visit some organ concerts in Haarlem or in Schiedam. There are the organs from the 17th and 18th century. The toccata was often used by the composer/organist to "test" the organ, so to find out the capabilities. The fugue (second part @ 4:20) is a horizontal counterpoint composition based on a theme with at least two voices. That means that the melody starts and while it's playing it returns in a different key or a lower register. It's way more complicated, but that's basically what a fugue is. It's quite hard to compose a fugue especially if there are three or more voices. I know there is a "big" debate on Tocatta and Fuga, if it was written by THE Bach or may be someone from the same family tree (there are a lot of Bach's 😂). Because J.S. Bach is known for his extremely complicated fugues. And this one is actually great, but he wrote way more complicated fugues. If this one is really written by J.S. Bach, it's probably from his early years or student years. Believe it or not, but all modern music, especially jazz, but almost anything is based on the works of J.S. Bach. Ask any schooled classical music teacher and he can tell you all about it. J.S. Bach was simply the greatest, with Mozart and Beethoven. Compairing Bach with Mozart or Beethoven, what many people do, is apples and oranges. Mozart is from a later time period when classical music was mainstream. Bach is from the earlier baroque time. Beethoven from the classical and romance time.

[@Giles316]

I first heard this when i watched Disney's Fantasia. Fell in love immediately. There are only a handful of classical pieces that bring me to tears, and this is one.... idc if ppl hate me for it or think less of me. This is a beautiful masterpiece. Jean-Baptiste Dupont's translation is next level, in my opinion.

[@bryantgolden6215]

If you liked this one you should react to BWV 538 Dorian by Bach, a good piece and insane footwork

[@HighlyCombustibleReacts]

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[@bryantgolden6215]

​@@HighlyCombustibleReactsAlright, thank you man

[@jordangagat]

Kraken playing tocata

[@G02372]

He can remember every note in order, I forget my PIN number sometimes 🤦‍♂️😂

[@Patracat]

LOL😂😂😂

[@shnappi832]

Sitting in a Church and the music goes thrue your body? Try it! ❤

[@philk9227]

Yes, you don't just listen to the music you feel the physical presence of the sound reverberating through your whole being. Had the pleasure of hearing this being played one lunchtime at St Mary Redcliff Church in Bristol - the place was empty and the organist was just getting in some practice. It was an incredible experience.

[@pietschipper324]

Magnificent !

[@claudios5007]

A reaction to "Valentina Lisitsa plays Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2" would be extremely cool!

[@HighlyCombustibleReacts]

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[@Ray-lw2rh]

Bach made metal music hundreds of years before metal was a thing.

[@theaffiliate4208]

Those "rods" on either side of the keyboards that he's pushing in and pulling out are called "Stops", which control which banks of pipes that are linked to each of the sets of keys. Which Also is where the term "Pulling Out All the Stops!" comes from. Meaning everything is to be used, or cranking it to 11.

[@SequentialCircuitProphet5]

He needed 3 weeks to learn it by Heart. A master 😊

[@FirebirdDesiro]

Something that is also worth looking at, is the Performance of Widors Toccata from Symphonie No5 at the Wiener Stephans Dom in Austria

[@HighlyCombustibleReacts]

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[@cellevangiel5973]

All concert pianists play from their head. Better, their fingers know it. In this case, his fingers and feet.

[@PointyTailofSatan]

Most people don't realize this, but before the Industrial Revolution, pipe organs were by far the most complicated and sophisticated machines on Earth. Even today, if the average person were to go inside a large pipe organ, how it works would be almost incomprehensible.

[@alexhudson6684]

Believe it or not, he was 18 years old when he wrote this piece.

[@caythorgrimson]

this to me is the defined prof that there aint a god this is math perfection

[@albertbrouwer8137]

You should check out Gert van Hoef, a great young dutch organist! He's able to get organ music to a much more higher standard 😀

[@HighlyCombustibleReacts]

Hi Albert, I know all about Gert van Hoef. I've reacted to him several times! Go check the videos out.

[@Jopie1967]

You should all listen too Gert van Hoef’s version

[@Green.Blood.]

I love bachs “foogas”

[@NataBolotnikova]

И это через наушники, а когда это слушаешь в живую, в храме, там даже воздух вибрирует

[@adeptusmechanicus7572]

Please check out the version of Gert van Hoef

[@leonore6160]

Le plus grand compositeur , un génie mais n'oublions pas Beethoven Mozart Chopin Hayden Wagner Vivaldi et tant d'autres illustres compositeurs avec un talent immense