>> Also... I mean, Mr Bach's Toccata & Fugue is pretty damned hard,
> 
> It all depends on what you measure it's difficulty relative to.  I'd say 
> that it's actually one of the easier classical organ pieces (though I'm 
> not very familiar with what the standard organ repertoire would be).
> 
> This is not to diminish the effort you spent learning it of course, it's 
> certainly challenging enough to present a challenge to people without 
> serious training in the instrument.  (as a note, it's also at about the 
> limit of my meager piano skills).

Well, Bach's Toccata & Fugue contains rapid melodies and dizzying 
harmonies and counterpoint. And it seems to hop from key to key at whim. 
Whoever wrote this thing was either a genius, or insane. (Possibly both, 
thinking about it...)

Widor's Toccata involves big block chords, wide intervals, a hyperactive 
stream of 32nd notes, and awkward rythems. I doubt I'll ever be able to 
play it as an actual toccata. It's too complicated! o_O

> I assume you're talking about the toccata from his Symphony No.5 for 
> organ?

Hell yeah. ;-)

> The third staff would be for the foot pedals -- almost all organ 
> music will have three staves.

Ooo... Well, obviously, my synthezier doesn't have those. (Which is 
precisely why it fits inside my bedroom BTW.)

> If your version of Bach's Toccata and 
> Fugue didn't, it was probably a piano reduction of the original 3-staff 
> organ score.

That would explain a few things. For example, the Widor score I have 
mumbles something about which organ stops to use at the beginning. The 
score I have for Bach says no such thing.

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