Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080 (Bach, Johann Sebastian)

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Lucas-coelho (2021/7/18)

8 more: Contrapunctus II • Contrapunctus III • Contrapunctus IV • Contrapunctus V • Contrapunctus VI • Contrapunctus VII • Contrapunctus VIII • Contrapunctus IX

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Performer Pages Glenn Gould (organ)
Publisher Info. Bach/Glenn Gould: The art of the Fugue, v.1 (First half)
Columbia Masterworks, 1962. MS 6338.
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Performers Contrapunctus ensemble
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Misc. Notes Recorded April 29, 2007. View on YouTube (guitars) and YouTube (electric guitars)
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For Organ, Strings, Continuo

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Publisher Info. Club national du disque, 1964, CND 41.
Performers Marie-Claire Alain (orgue)
Orchestre de chambre Paul Kuentz
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Misc. Notes Collection personnelle - Side 1: Fugue 1 à IV, Canon à l’octave, Fugue V - Side 2: Fugues VI et VII, Canon par augmentation et mouvement contraire, Fugues VIII à X - Side 3: Fugue XI, Canon à la douzième, Fugues XII et XIII, Canon à la dizième - Side 4: Fugue XIV (inachevée), Choral “Devant ton trône je vais comparaître” BWV 668
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For Organ (Nowik)

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Performers Piotr Nowik, Viscount Sonus 60 organ
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Performer Pages Christoph Lahme (Harmonium)
Publisher Info. Essen: Christoph Lahme, 9th July 2011.
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Performer Pages Christoph Lahme (Harmonium)
Publisher Info. Essen: Christoph Lahme, 9th August 2011.
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Misc. Notes Recording by using a portable recorder.
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22 more: Contrapunctus 2 • Contrapunctus 3 • Contrapunctus 4 • Contrapunctus 5 • Contrapunctus 6 a 4 in Stylo Francese • Contrapunctus 7 a 4 per Augment et Diminut • Contrapunctus 8 a 3 • Contrapunctus 9 a 4. alla Duodecima • Contrapunctus 10 a 4. alla Decima • Contrapunctus 11 a 4 • Contrapunctus 12 • Contrapunctus 12 (inversion) • Contrapunctus 10a a 4 • Canon in Hypodiapason – Resolutio Canonis • Canon in Hypodiatessaron al roversio e per augmentationem, perpetuus • Canon alla Decima – Contrapunto alla Terza • Canon alla Duodecima in Contrapunto alla Quinta • Canon per Augmentationem in Contrario Motu • Fuga a 2. Clav • Alio moda Fuga a 2. Clav. • Contrapunctus 19 – Fuga a 3 soggetti • Choral. Wenn wir in hoechsten Noethen Canto Fermo in Canto

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5 more: Contrapunctus II • Contrapunctus IV • Contrapunctus IX • Contrapunctus XVI rectus • Contrapunctus XVI inversus

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Publisher Info. Giacomo Andreola
Performers Giacomo Andreola
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Sheet Music

Scores and Parts

Complete

Autograph Version

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Publisher. Info. Holograph manuscript, 1742-46.
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Misc. Notes Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (D-B): Mus.ms. Bach P 200
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Publisher. Info. Holograph manuscript, n.d.(ca.1742-46)
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Misc. Notes Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (D-B): Mus.ms. Bach P 200
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Publisher. Info. Holograph manuscript, n.d.(ca.1749)
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Misc. Notes Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (D-B): Mus.ms. Bach P 200/1
Early versions of Nos. 14, 18, & 19 (note: No. 18 has Inversus 1st, then Rectus)
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Editor Klaus Hofmann (b. 1939)
Publisher. Info. Neue Bach-Ausgabe, Serie VIII, Band 2.2 (pp.1-177)
Kassel: Bärenreiter Verlag, 1995. Plate BA 5082.
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Editor Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
First edition (+ revised edition)
Publisher. Info. Berlin: [C.P.E. Bach], n.d.[1751].
Revised printing, n.d.[1752].
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Misc. Notes With appendix of Vor deinen Thron tret' ich, BWV 668
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Publisher. Info. Berlin: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, 1751.
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Misc. Notes Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (D-B), Amalien-Bibliothek: Am.B 58b
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
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Publisher. Info. Berlin: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, 1752.
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Misc. Notes Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (D-B): Mus. O. 17364 Rara
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Copyist Johann Friedrich Hering (1724–1810)
Publisher. Info. Manuscript, n.d.(ca.1750s-60s).
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Misc. Notes Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (D-B): Mus.ms. Bach P 656
Incl. BWV 668a and 1079 excerpts
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Copyist Johann Friedrich Agricola (1720–1774)
Publisher. Info. Manuscript, n.d.(ca.1760).
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5 more: Fugues 1-5 • Fugues 6-10 • Fugues 11-14 • Unnumbered canons and fugues (total 4 canons and 3 fugues) • Anhang (Appendix)*

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Editor Wilhelm Rust (1822-1892)
Publisher. Info. Bach-Gesellschaft Ausgabe, Band 25.1 (pp.1-116)
Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1878. Plate B.W. XXV (1).
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Misc. Notes *Die Kunst der Fuge nach dem Berliner Autograph in Anordnung und Lesarten
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5 more: Contrapuncti I-V • Contrapuncti VI-X • Contrapuncti XI-XV • Contrapuncti XVI-XIX, and Choral • Appendix: Earlier versions, Thematic index.

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Editor Wolfgang Graeser (1906-1928)
Publisher. Info. Bach-Gesellschaft Ausgabe, Band 47
Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1926. Plate B.W. XLVII.
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Editor Werner Icking (1943-2001)
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Editor Christian Mondrup (b. 1947)
Publisher. Info. Christian Mondrup
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Misc. Notes Contemporized, practical edition based on Werner Icking's urtext edition

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Editor Klaus Hofmann (b. 1939)
Publisher. Info. Neue Bach-Ausgabe, Serie VIII, Band 2.1 (pp.1-198)
Kassel: Bärenreiter Verlag, 1995. Plate BA 5082.
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Copyist Hermann Kretzschmar (1848–1924)
Publisher. Info. Holograph manuscript, n.d.(ca.1742-46)
Reprinted Bach-Gesellschaft Ausgabe, Band 44
Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1895. Plate B.W. XLIV.
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Contrapunctus IX

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Editor Pierre Gouin - Contact
Publisher. Info. Montréal: Les Éditions Outremontaises, 2006
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Misc. Notes These file(s) are part of the Werner Icking Music Collection. - Rév. avril 2021
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Contrapunctus XII

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Editor Saverio Lomartire
Publisher. Info. Saverio Lomartire
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Misc. Notes Transcription from Autograph Ms. in Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
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Contrapunctus XIX

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Editor Cauê Muratt (b. 1988)
Publisher. Info. São Paulo: Cauê Muratt, 2017.
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Arranger Donald Francis Tovey (1875-1940), completion
Editor Gervais Frykman
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Misc. Notes Published by OUP 1931
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Arranger Kompy
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Misc. Notes Based on edition by Breitkopf und Härtel, 1885.
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Arranger Serban Nichifor
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Arranger Serban Nichifor
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Arranger Martin Straeten
Publisher. Info. Martin Straeten, 2001
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Misc. Notes in memoriam Werner Icking
Based on an early manuscript version from c.1740
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Arranger Carl Czerny (1791-1857)
Publisher. Info. Leipzig: C. F. Peters, n.d. Plate 2690.
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Arranger Carl Czerny (1791-1857)
Publisher. Info. Leipzig: Edition Peters, No.218, n.d.[1913]. Plate 9680.
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Arranger Carl Czerny (1791-1857)
Publisher. Info. Leipzig: Edition Peters, No.218, n.d.[1913]. Plate 9680.
Reprinted New York: E.F. Kalmus, n.d.(1933-70). Piano Series 3051.
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Misc. Notes Missing fingering. Includes preface and index of incipits, but heavily edited with articulations and dynamics; reprint omits original publishing information.
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Editor Nikolai Kopchevsky (1930-1988)
Publisher. Info. Moscow: Muzyka, 1974, 1982
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Arranger Dominic Florence
Publisher. Info. Contrapunctus Press, 2021.
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Selections (Contrapunctus I-VII, IX-XII, Xa, Fuga a 3 Soggetti)

For 2 Violins, Viola and Cello (Icking)

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Arranger Werner Icking (1943-2001)
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Selections: Contrapunctus I-XI, XIX

For Organ (Biebricher)

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Arranger Christof K. Biebricher
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Selections (Contrapunctus I, II, IV, IX, XVI rectus, XVI inversus)

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Arranger Giacomo Andreola
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Selections (Contrapunctus VIII and XIII)

For Violin, Viola and Cello (Icking)

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Arranger Werner Icking (1943-2001)
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Selections: Contrapunctus I-V, VIII, XI; Canon I

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Contrapunctus: I, II, III, IV, V, VIII, XI
Canon: per Augmentationem in Contrario Motu

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For Horn, Trumpet, Euphonium and Tuba (Messerschmidt)

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Arranger Hans Jorgen Messerschmidt (b. 1944)
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For 2 Recorders (Gomez)

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Das Hauptthema (No.1)

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Misc. Notes Die Kunst der Wahrheit
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Contrapunctus I

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Misc. Notes Orchestra (flute, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets (B), 2 bassoons, 2 horns (F), trumpet (B, C), tuba, timpani, strings)
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Misc. Notes Scored for oboe, Englsh horn, bass oboe, bassoon
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For 2 Violins, Viola and Cello (RSB)

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For Violin, Cello and Piano (Kozlov)

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Fuga, alio modo Fuga

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All other editions have another version of Alio Modo Fuga, meas. 27: The 4th note Clav 1, rh is B and the 5th note of Clav 1, lh is also B.
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Contrapunctus XIV

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Work Title The Art of the Fugue
Alternative. Title Die Kunst der Fuge
Name Translations La arto de la fugo; 賦格的藝術; L'art de la fuga; L'arte della fuga; L'Art de la fugue; Umění fugy; A fúga művészete; フーガの技法; El arte de la fuga; אמנות הפוגה; Искусство фуги; Arte da Fuga; 푸가의 기법; Мистецтво фуги; Kunst der Fuge; 賦格藝術; Уметноста на фугата; Η τέχνη της φούγκας; 赋格的艺术; Fuugakunst; Ars Fugae
Name Aliases L’art de la fuga; Art de la fuga; Arte della Fuga; L'Arte della Fuga; L'Arte della fuga; L'arte della fuga (Bach); Arte della fuga; Art de la fugue; Fuugan taito; אומנות הפוגה; Kunst der fuge; A Arte da Fuga; A arte da fuga; Arte da fuga; 푸가 기법; Sztuka fugi; Die Kunst Der Fuge; Art Of Fugue; The art of fugue; The art of the fugue; The art of fuge; Art of fuge; The Art of Fugue; The Art of the Fugue, BVW 1080
Authorities WorldCat; Wikipedia; VIAF: 180226540; LCCN: n79089424; GND: 300009712; SUDOC: 028267117; BNF: 139094681; NLA: 35459390; BNE: XX3385615
Composer Bach, Johann Sebastian
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No. BWV 1080
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. IJB 357
Key D minor
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 15* (holograph); 20* (1st edition)
  • Bach's holograph
15 pieces (12 fugues, 3 canons)
  • Final version as published
20 pieces (including arrangements, other versions [incl. "Beilage" from Autograph, which were composed later]), added chorale-setting (to complete work, not included in actual work)
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. 1742-46; rev. 1748–50
First Publication. 1751 - Berlin: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Average DurationAvg. Duration 80-100 minutes
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period Baroque
Piece Style Baroque
Instrumentation unspecified, but most likely keyboard
Related Works See also List of compositions with the theme "B-A-C-H"
Manuscript Sources Bach Digital (source list)
External Links Wikipedia article
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