The Prelude is a gracious and playful dance... Commentators do not admit that, light and careless, it is rightly coupled to an imposing Fugue with its grandiose ending... Even if these pieces were composed during different periods, we do know that it is Bach himself who selected and coupled them... Who knows - perhaps it is the contrast of grace and power which pleased Bach? The commentators also have little enthusiasm for the Fugue... Probably they have been influenced by Spitta, who found it pedantic and lacking in imagination... In their miscomprehension they dare to accuse it of being deficient in rhythmic energy - this piece full of arder, of fire, of extraordinary drive!
The appearance of the pedal board (measure 83) crowns their dissatisfaction... But let us move on and consider this Fugue with the admiration it deserves...
'September 13' is the 256th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar...
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509 BC – 'The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus' on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September...
335 – Emperor Constantine the Great consecrated 'the Church of the Holy Sepulchre' in Jerusalem...
1229 – Ögedei Khan is proclaimed Khagan of the Mongol Empire in Kodoe Aral, Khentii: Mongolia...
1501 – Michelangelo begins work on his statue of 'David'.
1609 – Henry Hudson reaches the river that would later be named after him – 'the Hudson River'.
1743 – Great Britain, Austria and the Kingdom of Sardinia sign 'the Treaty of Worms'.
1782 – American Revolutionary War: Franco-Spanish troops launch the unsuccessful 'grand assault' during 'the Great Siege of Gibraltar'.
1848 – Vermont railroad worker Phineas Gage survives a 3-foot (0.91 m) -plus iron rod being driven through his head; the reported effects on his behavior and personality stimulate thinking about the nature of the brain and its functions...
1906 – First flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe...
1922 – The final act of the Greco-Turkish War, 'the Great Fire of Smyrna', commences...
1968 – Albania leaves 'the Warsaw Pact'.
1971 – People's Republic of China: Chairman Mao Zedong's second in command and successor Marshal Lin Biao flees the country via plane after the failure of alleged coup against Mao... The plane crashes in Mongolia, killing all aboard...
1987 – 'Goiânia accident': A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and causing some to die from radiation poisoning...
1993 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with PLO chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House after signing the Oslo Accords granting limited Palestinian autonomy...
1994 – 'Ulysses probe' passes the Sun's south pole...
Prelude and Fugue XX in A Minor
The Prelude is a gracious and playful dance... Commentators do not admit that, light and careless, it is rightly coupled to an imposing Fugue with its grandiose ending... Even if these pieces were composed during different periods, we do know that it is Bach himself who selected and coupled them... Who knows - perhaps it is the contrast of grace and power which pleased Bach? The commentators also have little enthusiasm for the Fugue... Probably they have been influenced by Spitta, who found it pedantic and lacking in imagination... In their miscomprehension they dare to accuse it of being deficient in rhythmic energy - this piece full of arder, of fire, of extraordinary drive!
The appearance of the pedal board (measure 83) crowns their dissatisfaction... But let us move on and consider this Fugue with the admiration it deserves...
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Declan Mulholland 'Jabba The Hutt'
George Enescu - Complete Orchestral Works (Horia Andreescu)
Michelle Williams as 'Dolores Chanal'
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'September 13' is the 256th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar...
...
509 BC – 'The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus' on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September...
335 – Emperor Constantine the Great consecrated 'the Church of the Holy Sepulchre' in Jerusalem...
1229 – Ögedei Khan is proclaimed Khagan of the Mongol Empire in Kodoe Aral, Khentii: Mongolia...
1501 – Michelangelo begins work on his statue of 'David'.
1609 – Henry Hudson reaches the river that would later be named after him – 'the Hudson River'.
1743 – Great Britain, Austria and the Kingdom of Sardinia sign 'the Treaty of Worms'.
1782 – American Revolutionary War: Franco-Spanish troops launch the unsuccessful 'grand assault' during 'the Great Siege of Gibraltar'.
1848 – Vermont railroad worker Phineas Gage survives a 3-foot (0.91 m) -plus iron rod being driven through his head; the reported effects on his behavior and personality stimulate thinking about the nature of the brain and its functions...
1898 – Hannibal Goodwin patents 'celluloid photographic film'.
1906 – First flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe...
1922 – The final act of the Greco-Turkish War, 'the Great Fire of Smyrna', commences...
1968 – Albania leaves 'the Warsaw Pact'.
1971 – People's Republic of China: Chairman Mao Zedong's second in command and successor Marshal Lin Biao flees the country via plane after the failure of alleged coup against Mao... The plane crashes in Mongolia, killing all aboard...
1987 – 'Goiânia accident': A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and causing some to die from radiation poisoning...
1993 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with PLO chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House after signing the Oslo Accords granting limited Palestinian autonomy...
1994 – 'Ulysses probe' passes the Sun's south pole...
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Donna Summer - Pandora's box...
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Donald W. Thompson
Galapagos...