J. S. Bach - The Art Of Fugue, BWV 1080 (Organ)

Performer: Herbert Tachezi Year: 1977 The Art of the Fugue; BWV 1080 (Organ) The Art of Fugue (or The Art of the Fugue; German: Die Kunst der Fuge), BWV 1080, is an incomplete work of unspecified instrumentation by Johann Sebastian Bach (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 fugues and 4 canons in D minor, each using some variation of a single principal subject, and generally ordered to increase in complexity. “The governing idea of the work“, as put by Bach specialist Christoph Wolff, “was an exploration in depth of the contrapuntal possibilities inherent in a single musical subject.“ The word “contrapunctus“ is often used for each fugue. Simple fugues: 0:00 Contrapunctus I 3:11 Contrapunctus II 6:22 Contrapunctus III 9:18 Contrapunctus IV Counter-fugues: 14:36 Contrapunctus V 17:51 Contrapunctus VI 22:00 Contrapunctus VII Double and triple fugues: 26:00 Contrapunctus VIII 32:01 Contrapunctus IX 35:00 Contrapunctus X 39:23 Contrapunctus XI Canons: 46:33 Canon per Augmentationem in Contrario Motu 49:27 Canon alla Ottava: Canon in imitation at the octave 51:43 Canon alla Decima in Contrapunto alla Terza 56:26 Canon alla Duodecima in Contrapunto alla Quinta Mirror fugues: 1:00:57 Contrapunctus [à 3-rectus] 1:03:48 Contrapunctus [à 3-inversus] 1:06:46 Contrapunctus [à 4-rectus] 1:09:38 Contrapunctus [à 4-inversus]