I was listening to an organist bemoaning this amazing Fugue by J S Bach (s. 948). It is not the famous one of the same notation (in D Minor) but it has many spectacular elements in it as you will hear.
It is usually played on the harpsichord. The organist pointed out that he'd heard harpsichordists didn't care for it much either.
For a harpsichord (which has a much smaller keyboard than a piano) there are a few impossibly low notes. For an organ (with its pedal board of low notes) those notes are easy, but there are very few of them. That's what the organist was complaining about. "It's not really for organ".
What does all this musical stuff add up to?
Perhaps this. That just because life isn't a perfect fit for us, some talents under-used, some requirements out of reach, we should see in our imperfections the beauty created by the Composer and forget our limitations by comparison.
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