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Good day do anyone know where I can get some of Bach's work that only use pedals? If you can also name a few of them it will be helpful.
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John,Originally posted by Johnallen View Post
I'm a bit confused--you mean no hands at all? I don't think Bach ever wrote a piece entirely for Pedals (& no manuals).
MichaelWay too many organs to list, but I do have 5 Allens:- MOS-2 Model 505-B / ADC-4300-DK / ADC-5400 / ADC-6000 (Symphony) / ADC-8000DKC
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- 11 Pump Organs, 1 Pipe Organ & 7 Pianos
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He did write one: the Pedal Exercitium (BWV 598). I know of no others.Originally posted by myorgan View PostComment
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And even this one is a fragment and exists in different variations, depending on who added the "missing" bars.Originally posted by Leisesturm View PostComment
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Occasionally, organ method books will include pedal solo excerpts from larger pieces, because there ARE pieces that have short pedal solos within a larger work, but other than the possibility of the Pedal Exercitium mentioned, I'm pretty sure there is nothing, or we would have surely heard about it.
Can I ask what prompted the original poster to ask the question?Comment
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Well since we seem to be pretty much agreed that Bach does not have an extensive 'Pedals Only' oeuvre, why don't we expand the purview of Johnallen's thread to include composers other than Bach? Dare I even say extend the scope of the time period beyond the Baroque. "Holiday For the Pedals" by Gordon Young to start this pedalpalooza off. Honorable mentions can be significant pedal solos in regular literature. Bach did have plenty of those. Very few are famous. The antiphonal pedal cadenza in the Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C Major (BWV 564) should lead off that section. The double pedal cadenza in the T&F in F Major (BWV 540) was a favorite of Mendelssohn's. It's because of Mendelssohn that we know about the Master at all, so give Felix some props as you ponder which Bach pedal passages should populate this panoply. Peace.Comment
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