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Bach, Johann Sebastian: Art of the Fugue BWV 1080

(Moroney, Davitt)

pocket score

Setting: Piano
Period: Baroque
Length: 159 pages
Weight: 0.323 kg
Published: 1984
Publisher: G. Henle Verlag
Item number: HN9423
Other reference: HN 9423
ISMN: 9790201894232
Bach’s death meant that the Art of Fugue was left unfinished. In his father’s manuscriptCarl Philipp Emanuel noted exactly where the last fugue of the Art of Fugue broke off: ''While working on this fugue, in which the name BACH appears in the countersubject, the author died.'' Our editor Davitt Moroney brings the fugue to a close with 30 supplementary measures. There has been frequent speculation about what type of scoring would be most appropriate for the piece, particularly since Bach wrote t
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