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BWV 577 – Fugue in G major "à la Gigue" (spurious) BWV 578 – Fugue in G minor "Little" BWV 579 – Fugue on a theme by Arcangelo Corelli (from Op. 3, No. 4); in B Minor; BWV 580 – Fugue in D major (spurious) BWV 581 – Fugue in G major (not by Bach, composed by Gottfried August Homilius) BWV 581a – Fugue in G major (spurious)
The Art of Fugue, or The Art of the Fugue (German: Die Kunst der Fuge), 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 the culmination of Bach's experimentation with monothematic instrumental works.
The six-part fugue in the "Ricercar a 6" from The Musical Offering, in the hand of Johann Sebastian BachIn classical music, a fugue (/ f juː ɡ /, from Latin fuga, meaning "flight" or "escape" [1]) is a contrapuntal, polyphonic compositional technique in two or more voices, built on a subject (a musical theme) that is introduced at the beginning in imitation (repetition at different pitches ...
The Ricercar a 6, a six-voice fugue which is regarded as the high point of the entire work, was put forward by the musicologist Charles Rosen as the most significant piano composition in history (partly because it is one of the first). [1] This ricercar is also occasionally called the Prussian Fugue, a name used by Bach himself.
Fugue in G minor, BWV 578, (popularly known as the Little Fugue), is a piece of organ music written by Johann Sebastian Bach during his years at Arnstadt (1703–1707). It is one of Bach's best known fugues and has been arranged for other voices, including an orchestral version by Leopold Stokowski.
Prelude (Toccata) and Fugue in E major, BWV 566; Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 543; Prelude and Fugue in B minor, BWV 544; Prelude and Fugue in B-flat major, BWV 866; Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 531; Prelude and Fugue in C minor, BWV 546; Prelude and Fugue in C minor, BWV 871; Prelude and Fugue in D major, BWV 532; Prelude and Fugue ...
Toccata and fugue in D minor at Netherlands Bach Society website (contains an introduction to the composition and a video of Leo van Doeselaar's 2013 performance of the work, released 2 May 2014) Mixed media (sheet music and recordings) Bach, Johann Sebastian – Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565, wikipiano.wikidot.com – Accessed 3 April 2016
BWV 579 – Fugue in B minor (on a theme by Corelli, from Op. 3, No. 4) BWV 580 – Fugue in D major (doubtful) [12] BWV 581 – Fugue in G major (not by Bach, composed by Gottfried August Homilius) BWV 582 – Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor