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Performed by on organ and harpsichordProblems playing these files? See.The Art of Fugue (or The Art of the Fugue; German: Die Kunst der Fuge), 1080, is an of unspecified instrumentation by (1685–1750).
Written in the last decade of his life, The Art of Fugue is the culmination of Bach's experimentation with monothematic instrumental works.This work consists of 14 and 4 in, each using some of a single principal, and generally ordered to increase in complexity. 'The governing idea of the work', as put by Bach specialist, 'was an exploration in depth of the possibilities inherent in a single musical subject.'
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The word 'contrapunctus' is often used for each fugue. Contents.Sources The earliest extant source of the work is an autograph manuscript of the early 1740s, containing 12 fugues and 2 canons. This autograph is typically referred to by its call number of P200 in the. Three manuscripts for pieces that would appear in the revised edition were bundled with P200 at some point before its acquisition by the library.The revised version was published in May 1751, slightly less than a year after Bach's death. In addition to changes in the order, notation, and material of pieces which appeared in the autograph, it contained 2 new fugues, 2 new canons, and 3 pieces of ostensibly spurious inclusion. A second edition was published in 1752, but differed only in its addition of a preface by.In spite of its revisions, the printed edition of 1751 contained a number of glaring editorial errors.
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The majority of these may be attributed to Bach's relatively sudden death in the midst of publication. Problems playing these files? This section needs additional citations for.