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At the same time it has been regarded as a "masterful description of horror and death in a concentration camp". [5] Celan was born to a Jewish family in Cernăuți, Romania (now Chernivtsi , Ukraine); his parents were murdered in the Holocaust, and Celan himself was a prisoner for a time in a work camp.
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)
At their May meeting he read his poem Todesfuge ("Death Fugue"), a depiction of concentration camp life. When Ingeborg Bachmann , with whom Celan had an affair, won the group's prize instead for her poetry collection Die gestundete Zeit ( The Extended Hours ), Celan (whose work had received only six votes) said "After the meeting, only six ...
Part III, "Dream Fugue, Founded on the Preceding Theme of Sudden Death," is devoted to De Quincey's opium dreams and reveries that elaborated on the elements of Parts I and II, the mail coaches, the near accident, national victory and grief.
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.
Dissociative fugue (/ f juː ɡ / FYOOG), previously referred to as a fugue state or psychogenic fugue, [1] is a rare psychiatric condition characterized by reversible amnesia regarding one’s identity, often accompanied by unexpected travel or wandering.
Finally, Walcha's completion of "Contrapunctus 18 (Fuga a 4 Soggetti)", i.e. the last fugue of Bach's The Art of Fugue, was recorded by Walcha himself for his stereo cycle of Bach's complete organ works, and again by his former pupil George Ritchie: J. S. Bach: The Organ Works. CD 6, track 11: The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080: Contrapunctus 18 in D ...
Christ lag in Todes Banden (also spelled Todesbanden; [a] "Christ lay in death's bonds" [2] or "Christ lay in the snares of death"), [3] BWV 4, is a cantata for Easter by German composer Johann Sebastian Bach, one of his earliest church cantatas. It is agreed to be an early work partly for stylistic reasons and partly because there is evidence ...