903 J. S. bach Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue, BWV 903 Ottavio Dantone, harpsichord

Apparently, Johann Sebastian Bach wrote his Chromatic Fantasy and Fuga in D minor BWV 903 as tombeau in homage to his first wife. This fact would explain the dramatism of the piece, which underlies the idea of the stylus phantasticus, described by a theorist of the time (Athanasius Kircher) as an instrumental genre in which the composer is not subject to text or formal restrictions.