 Art of Fugue, Bwv.1080: Contrapunctus XIX. Fuga a 3 soggetti (Completion by DF Tovey, 1931) |
| File: | zbach1080-19.nwc (June 2007) 30 kB |
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| Full name of work: | Art of Fugue, Bwv.1080: Contrapunctus XIX. Fuga a 3 soggetti (Completion by DF Tovey, 1931) |
| Composer: | Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750), German |
| NWC Version: |  |
| Arranger: | James Karageanes |
| About: | NA |
| Lyricist: | NA |
| Translator: | NA |
| First line: | NA |
| Music category: | Baroque |
| Instruments: | 2 Harpsichords |
| Name of file creator: | James Karageanes |
| e-mail address: | Doctor_Zorba0902 "at" comcast "dot" net |
| Website: | http://laurasmidiheaven.com/All-.....anes-Midis.shtml |
| Running time: | 9:14 |
| Comments: | Written ~1744-1748. Published posthumously in 1751 (a year after Bach's death) by his son, CPE Bach. Corrected, edited, and re-published in 1754. No instrumentation for this intended quadruple fugue was indicated. Bach completed the first three subjects and indicated that the fourth subject should/would be the notational equivalent of his name, B-A-C-H. The work was published in "open score," four staves of music (primarily) written in C-Clefs to maintain notation near the middle of the staff. Either the completed score was left as a compositional problem in the "Art of Fugue" for future generations of composers, or the composer's own completion for the fugue was lost. Tovey's completion of Contrapunctus-19 was written in 1931 and originally scored for string quintet. Scored for 2 Pedal Harpsichords by the arranger. |