The Art of Fugue, J.S. Bach's last work, left incomplete at his death, is a kind of summa in which the composer gave a final overview of the contrapuntal techniques that could be used in fugal ...

In the last years of his life, J.S. Bach embarked on a daunting project: a cycle of fugues and canons, about 80 minutes in length, entirely derived from a single cellular strand of melody. He ...

J.S. Bach's final work, The Art of Fugue, is a masterpiece of baroque composition. Representing the culmination of Bach's abilities as a contrapuntal composer, it also serves as a message (and an ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Bach's unfinished fugue from the Art of Fugue(Public Domain) Bach's Art of Fugue is one of his more ...

Next Saturday evening (November 1), my son Sam and his brilliant colleague, pianist and harpsichordist Ralitza Patcheva, will be performing the complete “Art of the Fugue” by JS Bach in Washington DC ...

J.S. Bach’s final work, the unfinished cycle of fugues and canons known as “Die Kunst der Fugue,” is a summation of Baroque polyphonic practice that, in the right performing hands, transcends ...

Old man Johann Sebastian Bach begat 20 children by two wives. Those that lived to adulthood turned out pretty good. Rather, it was one of the children Bach created that went bad, his last one, Die ...

On Saturday 21 October 2023, Dutch organist and musicologist, Pieter Dirksen will lead a Study Day on The Art of Fugue BWV 1080 by JS Bach at Trinity College, Cambridge. The event is being run by the ...

David Post is currently an Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute, and was previously a professor at Beasley School of Law at Temple University.