Simon Crouch ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
>... I do recall hearing a re-construction played on the radio a few
>years back and it struck me that it would not be a difficult reconstruction
>to make, so this one might be Manze's own. Enough guessing....I'll write
>when I find out the answer.
Thanks. Peter Williams is the musicologist who (AFAIK) first suggested
that, to quote the BBC radio programme wherein I first heard his
exposition, Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor for organ was probably
not by Bach, not called Toccata and Fugue, not in D minor and not written
for organ.
His talk was followed by Jaap Schroder (I think 'twas he) playing a
reconstruction of the "original". Still have a tape of that somewhere....
Deryk Barker
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