Adam Brakel plays Buxtehude Praeludium in D Minor

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BWV 565 has survived only through one single copy by Johannes Ringk (1717–1778), with the title Toccata con Fuga ex d. According to Dietrich Kilian,¹ all other existing copies can be traced back to Ringk’s manuscript, directly or indirectly through an intermediate copy. We do not know if Ringk copied from a copy or from the original. A major debatable matter of the source is the incomplete measure 72. It comprises only three beats, four sixteenth notes are missing (Example 1).

From the late Robert and Jeanne Lent

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