The Art of Fugue
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The Art of Fugue (or The Art of the Fugue; Template:Lang-de), BWV 1080, is an incomplete musical 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.
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- Milan Munclinger with Ars Rediviva (1959, 1966, 1979)
- Fine Arts String Quartet and New York Woodwind Quintet (1962)
- Yūji Takahashi (incomplete) electronic version (1975)
- Musica Antiqua Köln (director Reinhard Goebel) for string quartet/harpsichord and various such instrumental combinations (1984)
- Canadian Brass for brass quintet (1990)
- Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet for recorder quartet (1998)
- Phantasm (director: Laurence Dreyfus) for viola da gamba four-part consort (1998)
- Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Brass (1998)
- Fretwork for Consort of Viols (2002)
- József Eötvös for two eight-string guitars (2002)
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- An electronic version, Laibachkunstderfuge, by Neue Slowenische Kunst industrial band Laibach (2008)
- Vulfpeck (founder Jack Stratton) for talk box (2016)<ref>Template:YouTube</ref>
See also
- List of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach
- List of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach printed during his lifetime
- The Art of Fugue discography