Toccatas for Keyboard (Bach)

The Toccatas for Keyboard, BWV 910–916, are seven pieces for clavier written by Johann Sebastian Bach.

Although the pieces were not originally organized into a collection by Bach himself (as were most of his other keyboard works, such as the Well Tempered Clavier and the English Suites), the pieces share many similarities, and are frequently grouped and performed together under a collective title.

[1] The toccatas represent Bach's earliest keyboard compositions known under a collective title.

The works bear an early northern-German influence,[2] with distinct contrasting sections and fugal passages ingrained into the rhapsodic material, as opposed to the more familiar, two-movement prelude and fugue format.

[5] Though the specific instrumentation is not given for any of the works, they are all strictly manualiter, as none of them call for pedal parts.