Peter Wolny

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18 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 22 Nov

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Global News Podcast · The Happy Pod: Donating my kidney transformed a child's life · 22 Nov 2025 podcast

Ikea's winter is no longer until November 11th.

Ikea.

Everyone goes home.

I was very surprised to hear these pieces for the first time also.

These are very early pieces.

Bach wrote them when he was 17 or 18 years old.

But still you could feel that there was a young musician who was trying to find his own personal voice in music.

I saw the manuscripts actually in the summer of 1992 for the first time, and somehow they attracted my attention, so I ordered photocopies in the library, in Brussels actually, took them home, and since then I have been trying to find out more about the pieces, about the manuscripts,

And it took more than 30 years before I was able to say these pieces were written down by Bach's first student in Arnstadt around 1705.

And when I was certain about this, I could also say the certain musical or formal anomalies in these pieces, that they are not mainstream, they are very special.

and that these special elements must come from J.S.

Bach.

I think we understand better now that the young J.S.

Bach was trying to accumulate as much musical knowledge as he could by studying the pieces of other composers.

And at the same time, he was trying to

use the elements that he saw in other composers' works to create his unique language.

When we listen to the D minor toccata that you played first, we have this language right there.

We know from the first note that this can only be Gelsbach.

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