Composers
Bach
Beethoven
Liszt
Chopin
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Free works
Musical works that are not written
in a fixed form, and derived moastly in the composer's inner world and
imagination. Most of these were written in
the romantic
era, in which form lost some of its importance
to sound color, orchestration
and harmony.
Programme music,
that described, through music, outside topics as stories, pictures or ideological
notions, concentrated on description rather than the predefined structure
and order.
There are also non-programme free
pieces, such as the toccata
(like the famous Toccata
in D minor
by Bach),
the fantasia,
(like Beethoven's
"Choral Fantasy"
and many of Liszt's
fantasias on themes from operas by Mozart, Verdi and Wagner), the prelude
(Bach's preludes in "The
Well-Tempered Clavier", and Chopin's
many preludes), and more.
Examples of free works
Toccata No. 3
by Frescobaldi
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Toccata and Fugue (not free) in Dm
by J.S. Bach
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