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unusual facts about Toccata


Joseph de Marliave

Maurice Ravel memorialized him in his Le tombeau de Couperin, dedicating the closing Toccata to him (the sixth part of the piano version, but absent in the orchestral arrangement).


A Toccata of Galuppi's

The title refers to the fact that the speaker is either playing or listening to a toccata by the 18th-century Venetian composer Baldassare Galuppi.

Carlo Grante

Maria Hofer - Toccata (piano solo) Ballada, for violoncello and piano (with Euden Prochak) Lieder (with Patrizia Cigna, Wolf Matthias Friedrich)(noncommercial compilation)

Elyakum Shapirra

Shapirra conducted the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and soloist Georges Pludermacher in the posthumous world premiere of Jani Christou's Toccata for Piano and Orchestra (1962), on 23 April 1973 in Oxford.

Machine Messiah

The song includes a quote from the Toccata of Charles-Marie Widor's Symphony for Organ No. 5 and Horn's lyric quotes the oft-used phrase "dark Satanic mills" from a William Blake poem.

Markku Luolajan-Mikkola

His more than 40 solo and chamber music recordings (stand out his solo parts of Marais, Forqueray and Couperin are available on the Alba, Avie, BIS, Linn, Simax, Channel Classics, Decca, GMN and Toccata Classics labels.

Martin Anderson

Martin Anderson (music publisher), founder of Toccata Press and Toccata Classics, London, U.K.; music journalist, writer and critic

Notas para una cartografía de Filipinas

Notas para una cartografía de Filipinas, subtitled Prelude, Toccata, and Fugues for piano and gangsa, one player, is a work by the contemporary classical composer Jeffrey Ching (Chinese name in Pinyin: Zhuang Zŭxin 莊祖欣, 庄祖欣).

Vagn Holmboe

An English translation of this by Professor Paul Rapoport, formerly of McMaster University, published by Toccata Press in 1991 has ISBN 0-907689-16-7 in its paperback release.

Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends... Ladies and Gentlemen

#"Toccata" An adaptation of Ginastera's 1st piano Concerto, 4th movement (Alberto Ginastera, arr. Emerson) – 7:21


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