Bach - Toccata in E minor BWV 914 - Jacobs | Netherlands Bach Society

The Toccata in E minor, performed by Bart Jacobs for All of Bach, ends with a brilliant fugue, which bears a strong resemblance to an anonymous Italian piece. Although Bach often arranged Italian concertos and also borrowed the occasional fugue theme from the Italians, he never adopted a whole fugue. But maybe it was the other way around and the anonymous Italian copied the fugue from Bach, or both composers based their piece on a lost original. We will probably never know for certain. Incidentally, Bach’s