12 Fugues for String Quartet, MWV R 1-17 (Mendelssohn, Felix)

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Fugue in (No.10)

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 * Work Title=12 Fugues for String Quartet, MWV R 1-17
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 * Movements Header=12 fugues
 * Number of Movements/Sections=12 fugues
 * 1. Fugue in (MWV R 1)
 * 2. Fugue in (MWV R 2)
 * 3. Fugue in (MWV R 3)
 * 4. Fugue in (MWV R 4)
 * 5. Fugue in (MWV R 5)
 * 6. Fugue in (MWV R 6)
 * 7. Fugue in (MWV R 7)
 * 8. Fugue in "Herzlich tut mich verlangen" (MWV R 8)
 * 9. Fugue in "Herzliebster Jesu, was hast du verbrochen" (MWV R 10)
 * 10. Fugue in "Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern" (MWV R 12)
 * 11. Fugue in "Ach Gott und Herr" (MWV R 14)
 * 12. Fugue in (MWV R 17)

There are 17 fugues in the R 1-17 section, but the R9, R13 and R15 are incomplete, and not listed here above.
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 * Year/Date of Composition=1821
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 * Piece Style=Romantic
 * Instrumentation=2 violins, viola, cello
 * Tags=fugues ; quartets
 * Extra Information=Mendelssohn composed these when he was 12 years old while studiyng with Carl Friedrich Zelter. These fugues were not composed for performance in mind, but as counterpoint excercises. Mendelssohn also used chorale melodies to experiment with the cantus firmus technique in some of the fugues.


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