As the door opens, an organ pierces through the thick silence and echoes through the cavernous halls. The tune that comes to many minds will be Johann Sebastian Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D ...

Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor is one of the most famous pieces of Baroque organ music ever written - with a particularly iconic opening Bach probably composed the Toccata and Fugue in D minor, ...

Undoubtedly the most famous organ work in existence – the powerful opening flourish and stormy, minor mood of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Toccata and Fugue immediately conjures gothic cathedrals and ...

“The ‘Wedge’ Prelude and Fugue is, I think ... “I think in general, the best known Bach organ works are the best known for a reason,” said MacKnight. “Usually those are real pinnacles ...

Though his thundering “Toccata and Fugue in D Minor” (BWV 565 ... Such are the “Six Trio Sonatas for Organ” (BWV 525-530), Bach’s trail-blazing treasures of transparency and charm ...

Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV. 565Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV. 565 ...

In Bach's era, the pipe organ was one of the world's most technologically advanced instruments. Stefano Bianchetti/Corbis via Getty Images ...

It's not only Bach's most famous fugue, but also the most famous fugue by any composer, ever. Can you hear a theme or pattern (called an exposition in music) that travels around the organ 3’40 ...