'Happy Birthday' in the Style of a J.S Bach Organ Chorale

July 2020, For my dear friend and fellow Bach addict Cristobal Menares.

by Sergio Valenzuela

[eensio]

The value of the works of J.S.Bach is not limited to his compositions. It is the style of his music. You apply here in unique way the power of this style. Thank you for this cordial "greeting card".

[Geopholus]

That is far and away the most pleasing, and most hilariously buried version of Happy Birthday, in the style of Bach! As a Cantata, as though it were a Martin Luther hymn set to accompaniment by Bach on organ!!!! I especially like the modulation into minor, for the Happy birthday dear which was wholly unexpected ! FABULOUS !!! For an entirely different and also very creatively satisfying journey of Variations on Happy Birthday theme, search Nahre Sol. She does almost every composer's style (12?) brilliantly, but her Bach is much more full of Bach's artifice, and technical rhetoric, in the style of his toccatas and fugues, than the gentle sweet reverence for the sonorities of peacefulness in your example. Shine on brightly....

[aaronrashid]

The way you were able to keep the notes in each voice consistent “(i.e, 16th in the top voice) and the middle and bottom voices being in a different tempo makes your counterpoint very evident

[charleshiggs]

This is too brilliant and charming! Bravo! By the way, for those into Zodiac Bach was an Aries.

[brentusfirmus]

This is brilliant, and incredibly underrated. Bravo!

[Nooticus]

This is so brilliant, and harder to do than it looks!! I'm writing a chorale prelude at the moment!

[sussurros.oniricos]

Thank you for this beautiful piece! Exquisite work indeed!

[drawknob]

Have you published this brilliant work? I’ll buy it!

[brittdougall]

I love this & would love to purchase a score if one’s available. Thanks!

[tobiasarndt]

this is sooo great. have you got a pdf i want to analyze the minor modulation? i :)