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Johann Sebastian Bach - Die Kunst Der Fuge BWV 1080 / Johannes-Ernst Köhler an der Hidelbrandorgel der Wenzelskirche zu Naumburg / ETERNA 2x LP 1977 Stereo
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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.
This work consists of 14 fugues and four 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.
Tracklist:
| Einfache Fugen | |||
| A1 | Contrapunctus 1 A 4 | ||
| A2 | Contrapunctus 2 A 4 | ||
| A3 | Contrapunctus 3 A 4 | ||
| A4 | Contrapunctus 4 A 4 | ||
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Gegenfugen |
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| A5 | Contrapunctus 5 A 4 | ||
| B1 | Contrapunctus 6 A 4 In Stylo Francese | ||
| B2 | Contrapunctus 7 A 4 Per Augmentationem Et Diminutionem | ||
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Doppel- Und Tripelfugen |
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| B3 | Contrapunctus 8 A 3 | ||
| B4 | Contrapunctus 9 A 4 Alla Duodecima | ||
| B5 | Contrapunctus 10 A 4 Alla Decima | ||
| C1 | Contrapunctus 11 A 4 | ||
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Kanons |
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| C2 | Canon Alla Ottava | ||
| C3 | Canon Alla Duodecima In Contrapuncto Alla Quinto | ||
| C4 | Canon Alla Decima, Contrapunctu Alla Terza | ||
| D1 | Canon Alla Per Augmentationem In Contrario Motu | ||
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Spielfugen |
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| D2-a | Contrapunctus A 3 | ||
| D2-b | Contrapunctus Inversus A 3 | ||
| D3-a | Contrapunctus A 4 | ||
| D3-b |
Contrapunctus Inversus A 4 | ||
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Quadrupelfuge |
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| D4 | Fuga A 4 Soggetti |
- Composed By – Johann Sebastian Bach
- Music Director [Musikregie] – Reimar Bluth
- Organ [Hildebrandtorgel Der Wenzelskirche Zu Naumburg] – Johannes-Ernst Köhler
- Recording Supervisor [Tonregie] – Eberhard Richter
