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The Art of Fugue
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The Art of Fugue, or The Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080, is an incomplete musical work of unspecified instrumentation by Johann Sebastian Bach. Written in the last decade of his life, The Art of Fugue is
Title page of the first edition, 1751
Title page of the first edition, 1751
The final page of the Fuga a 3 Soggetti fragment, with a handwritten note by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach that the composer died at this point.
The final page of the Fuga a 3 Soggetti fragment, with a handwritten note by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach that the composer died at this point.
The Musical Offering
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The Musical Offering, BWV 1079, is a collection of keyboard canons, fugues, and other pieces of music by Johann Sebastian Bach, all based on a single musical theme given to him by Frederick the Great,
The Art of Fugue
…D minor, elaborated according to different composing techniques like, for example, variation and the mirror inversion of the intervals. Together with The Musical Offering, The Art of Fugue is recognised as one of the most complex and articulated works ever written, and it is universally considered to be among the highest…
The Flute Concert of Sanssouci by Adolph Menzel, 1852, depicts Frederick playing the flute in his music room, with C. P. E. Bach accompanying him on a
The Flute Concert of Sanssouci by Adolph Menzel, 1852, depicts Frederick playing the flute in his music room, with C. P. E. Bach accompanying him on a harpsichord-shaped piano by Gottfried Silbermann.