Fugue

Un style qui repose sur le contrepoint, ou l'interaction de deux ou plusieurs motifs, la fugue a captivé les auditeurs pendant des siècles.Cette collection originale propose une grande variété de pièces de grande époque de la fugue à l'époque baroque ainsi que d'autres époques, chacune créé par un maître du genre. Avec des oeuvres de Bach, Buxtehude, Brahms, Schumann et d'autres, tous ensemble ici pour orgue solo. / Orgue

An extensive volume filled with fugues from the last 350 years! Beginning with works by Frescobaldi Scarlatti Giambattista and Handel this collection features several compositions by the fugue's most famous expositor Johann Sebastian Bach including many pieces from the Well-Tempered Clavier. Contributions from latter-day composers include works by Mozart Beethoven Mendelssohn Robert and Clara Schumann Brahms and Saint-Saëns.

Bach: Complete Organ Works Vol. 1 Preludes and Fugues I - with CD-ROM - ed. by David Schulenberg As close as possible to Bach In his ?Preludes and Fugues,? Johann Sebastian Bach made decisive contributions to the development of this genre tradition. The importance of this work group in his own organ oeuvre is confirmed by the many transmitted sources: hardly any autographs, but all the more copies. The genesis of the works and the question of versions associated with it are described at length in the introduction. In his new edition, editor David Schulenberg occasionally makes a new evaluation of the transmitted sources. To do so, he based himself as faithfully as possible on the manuscripts that can be traced back to Bach or to his circle. Here the American Bach expert generally chooses one source as his principal one. Divergences from other sources are documented in the Commentary. On the whole, the new Urtext edition sometimes also emends some long-cherished readings of ornaments, voice leading and notation. Also printed in Volume 1 is, for example, the early version of the C major Prelude BWV 545 as well as the inserted Trio movement of the three-movement version of this work. As with the previously published volumes, the CD-ROM enclosed in Volumes 1 and 2 contains dubious works and secondary versions for comparison with the principal versions. This time, the CD-ROMs are completely in German and English and feature the English version of the Commentary.

Includes 'Chaconne In D Minor', 'Prelude And Fugue In E Flat' (St. Anne) and 'Ten Chorale Preludes'. Authoritative German editions.

Bach: The Art Of Fugue And A Companion To The Art Of Fugue features sheet music for the complete score of J. S. Bach's Die Kunst der Fuge (The Art of Fugue) in this editionprepared by Donald Francis Tovey. Originally published by Oxford University Press in 1931 Tovey's edition presents the fourteen fugues plus the four canons in open score allowing readers to follow eachindividual voice. Furthermore Tovey completed the unfinished final fugue reintroducing the principal theme of the work's opening fugue to create a quadruple fugue.In addition to the complete score this editionfeatures Tovey's extended commentary on each of the fugues. Entitled A Companion to 'The Art of Fugue ' Tovey's commentary was originally published separately from the score; this editionincludes the commentary within the same volume as the music. The commentary outlines the contrapuntal devices employed in each of the fugues as well as keen observations on J. S. Bach's technicalcraftsmanship.In addition Tovey offers insights into the performance of these fugues and suggestions for their programming.Pianists organists and all lovers of chamber and Baroque music will appreciatethis inexpensive single-volume edition of one of Bach's finest works and a classic commentary.

Done with great taste, in a perfectly simple and straightforward manner, Liszt's piano transcriptions of Bach's organ music became the classic models for all future works in this genre. Includes 6 Organ Preludes and Fugues (BWV 543-548) and the world-famous Fantasia and Fugue in G minor (BWV 542). Content : Organ-Fantasy and Fugue in G Minor (BWV 542 • S463) Six Organ Preludes and Fugues Prelude and Fugue in A Minor (BWV 543 • S462/1) Prelude Fugue Prelude and Fugue in C Major (BWV 544 • S462/2) Prelude Fugue Prelude and Fugue in C Minor (BWV 545 • S462/3 Prelude Fugue Prelude and Fugue in C Major (BWV 546 • S462/4 Prelude Fugue Prelude and Fugue in E Minor (BWV 547 • S462/5 Prelude Fugue Prelude and Fugue in B Minor (BWV 548 • S462/6 Prelude Fugue

By Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) edited by Klaus Hofmann. Piano book for piano (solo duet - see contents). Urtext of the New Bach Edition. 156 pages. Published by Baerenreiter-Ausgaben (German import). (BA.BA5207) ISBN M006503674. With introductory text performance notes and manuscript facsimiles. Baroque. 9x12 inches. SMP Level 8 (Early Advanced)4 and 5-note chords spanning more than an octave. Intricate rhythms and melodies. (Learn more about SMP levels)Contents:Contrapunctus 1 BWV 1080/1Contrapunctus 2 BWV 1080/2Contrapunctus 3 BWV 1080/3Contrapunctus 4 BWV 1080/4Contrapunctus 5 BWV 1080/5Contrapunctus 6 BWV 1080/6Contrapunctus 7 BWV 1080/7Contrapunctus 8 BWV1080/8Contrapunctus 9 BWV 1080/9Contrapunctus 10 BWV 1080/10Contrapunctus 11 BWV 1080/11Contrapunctus 12 BWV 1080/12 2 forma inversa.Contrapunctus 12 BWV 1080/12 1 forma recta.Contrapunctus 13 BWV 1080/13 2 forma recta.Contrapunctus 1 BWV 1080/13 1 forma inversa.Canon BWV 1080/14Canon BWV 1080/15Canon BWV 1080/16Canon BWV 1080/17Fugue BWV 1080/18 2 forma recta - piano duet (extra part included).Fugue BWV 1080/18 1 forma inversa - piano duet (extra part included).Vierstimmige Spiegelfuge No. 12 piano duet (extra part included).Dreistimmige Spiegelfuge No. 19 piano duet (extra part included).Fugue BWV 1080/19Contrapunctus BWV 1080/10aChorale - Wenn Wir In Hochsten Noten Sein BWV 668aCanon In Hypodiatessaron BWV DeestFugue (Fragment)

When Brahms Mendelssohn and Schumann composed for the organ all three turned for inspiration to the musical style of the late Baroque period. Includes 11 'Choral Preludes' by Brahms three 'Preludes And Fugues' by Mendelssohn six 'Fugues' by Schumann and other works by the composers.

Just back from a trip to Leipzig in the early autumn of 1950 where he heard Bach's Well-Tempered Klavier at the Bicentennial Bach Competition played by the Russian pianist Tatiana Nikolaeva Shostakovich began his own series of 24 Preludes and Fugues Op. 87 based on Bach's model. He composed them quickly starting on October 10 1950 and finishing on February 23 1951. While his work would pay homage to Bach Shostakovich's work would have several fundamental differences. First the order of the individual pieces would be organized around the circle of fifths with a prelude and fugue in the relative minor following each major key piece rather than in ascending semi-tonalorder of Bach's work. Second Shostakovich's pieces would be composed in order — that is C major - A minor followed by G major - E minor followed by D major - B minor — and more significantly this order would have a sort of subliminal narrative sub-text taking the music from the 'innocent' tonal world of the C major Prelude and Fugue to the profound and sublime severity of the concluding D minor Prelude and Fugue. Finally Shostakovich's work although conservative in its counterpoint and harmony — that is there are no examples of invertible or reversible themes or counterpoint and the pieces are for the most part recognizably tonal in language — is still clearly the work of a modernist composer; his counterpoint and harmony may be conservative but the emotional and spiritual worlds of the preludes and fugues is at once sincere and ironic. The result is a work which can not only stand comparison with Bach's Well-Tempered Klavier it is both Shostakovich's masterpiece for the piano and one of the contrapuntal masterpieces of the twentieth century.