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Praeludium in A, BuxWV151Key: A
Genre: Prelude / Fugue
Pr. Instrument: Organ (Baroque)
This praeludium in A major is in four sections: two free toccata-like sections, and two fugues. The first toccata-like section is the more substantial of the two free sections. It features some of Buxtehude's wildest spasmodic passage work. Of the two fugues, the first is also the most substantial. It appears to be a double fugue at the outset, but the first of the two subjects fades out leaving what appeared to be the secondary subject as the true subject of the fugue. The second fugue works its way right to the conclusion rather than giving way to rhapsodic material as Buxtehude usually does in his fugues.
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