Tag Archives: duet

Halloween Music: Toccata and Fugue in d minor by J.S Bach

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Johann Sebastian Bach’s towering monument of organ music, with its deep sense of foreboding, will forever be associated with Halloween.

Get a free copy of the sheet music at IMSLP or borrow a copy from the O’Connor Music Studio.  I have this arranged for organ, piano, duet, 2-piano, simplified…

If you want this in a book with other Bach transcriptions, amazon has this: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor and the Other Bach Transcriptions for Solo Piano, arranged by Ferruccio Busoni.

Here, Virgil Fox performs it on his Allen Digital Touring Organ.

 

Diane Bish plays the Massey Memorial Organ at the Chautauqua Institution and talks about this instrument.

 

Play along with pianist Cyprien Katsaris if you wish!

https://youtu.be/c-t91r0Wing

 

And, the most fun…

https://youtu.be/3lA9yBrnFyI

Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2

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Danish comedian and pianist Victor Borge gives every impression of having been asked to play a duet with someone whom he not only doesn’t know, but doesn’t particularly like. Forced to come up with a mutually agreeable way of sharing the musical workload, he settles on the most difficult route possible.

It’s not clear why two pianists were needed for this performance of Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No.2, S.244/2.  I think that they did it just for the fun of it.  The result is hilarious.

They’re not the only ones to tackle Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 as a piano duo.  We also have these guys:

 

Finally, for real:

 

Duet Artist Piano Bench

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I am considering getting this split bench for the O’Connor Music Studio since we play lots of duets here.

The current bench that came with the piano is one of those that opens up and has some storage but is not adjustable at all.  This creates a problem for some of the older students and we have to move the music rack quite far forward so they can see properly.  An adjustable bench would help them, too.

There may be a quiz on this option at your next lesson – give it some thought!