Great Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542

Robert Huw Morgan plays Bach's Fantasia and Fugue in G minor on the Fisk-Nanney organ at the Stanford Memorial Church in Stanford, California.

The Great Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542, is an organ prelude and fugue by Johann Sebastian Bach. It acquired that name to distinguish it from the earlier Little Fugue in G minor, which is shorter. This piece is not to be confused with the Prelude and Fugue in A minor, which is also for organ and also sometimes called "the Great".^[1][2]

It was transcribed for piano by Franz Liszt as S.463.

References

1. Williams, Peter (2003), The Organ Music of J. S. Bach (2nd ed.), Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-89115-9
2. Yearsley, David (2012), Bach's Feet: The Organ Pedals in European Culture, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521199018

External links

• Fantasia and Fugue, BWV 542, G minor: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
• Video recording of the Fantasia in G minor (BWV 542) performed by Robert Smith on the 1969 Grant, Degens and Bradbeer organ of New College Chapel, Oxford
• Free download of BWV 542 recorded by James Kibbie on the 1736 Erasmus Bielfeldt organ in St. Wilhadi, Stade, Germany