It opens with a set of flourishes and descending motifs in parallel octaves, leading into a diminished-seventh chord.
This work plays during the opening credits of Rollerball as well as the opening of the Fredric March film Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Sergeant Peter Gibbs plays this piece in Canterbury Cathedral at the end of A Canterbury Tale. It is being played as Marcello speaks to Steiner in a church in La Dolce Vita. Leopold Stokowski's arrangement of this piece from organ to full orchestra was the first piece featured in Disney's Fantasia, accompanied by shots of shadows of the orchestra musicians. It opens with a set of flourishes and descending motifs in parallel octaves, leading into a diminished-seventh chord. For 10 points, name this scary-sounding organ work by Johann Sebastian Bach.
This work plays during the opening credits of Rollerball as well as the opening of the Fredric March film Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Toccata and Fugue in D minor [accept BWV 565]