Große Fuge, BV 255 (Busoni, Ferruccio)

Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	1 / 10
Composition Year	1910
Genre Categories	Fantasias; Fugues; For piano; Scores featuring the piano; For 1 player

Sheet Music

Complete Score (BV 255)
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Publisher. Info.	New York: Schirmer, 1910. Plate 22004.
Copyright	Public Domain [tag/del]
Misc. Notes	1. Copy 93 of a special 100 print run 2. Handwritten inscription on dedication page: "This copy was given to Elisabeth Rackemann by Mr. Rudolph Schirmer, to the great satisfaction of her old and devoted friend Ferruccio Busoni, Aug. 1915, New York."
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Work Title	Große Fuge
Alternative. Title	Kontrapunktische Fantasie über Johann Sebastian Bach’s letztes unvollendetes Werk. Für Klavier ausgeführt von Ferruccio Busoni
Composer	Busoni, Ferruccio
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No.	BV 255
Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No.	IFB 86
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	1 / 10
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp.	1910
First Publication.	1910
Dedication	An Wilhelm Middelschulte Meister des Kontrapunktes
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Romantic
Piece Style	Early 20th century
Instrumentation	Piano solo

„Bach’s letztes unvollendetes Werk“ is Contrapunctus XIX from Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080.
„Begonnen auf dem Dampfer »Barbarossa« um Neujahr 1910. Beendet in New-Orleans am 1. März 1910.“ (page 39)
The plan of the work („Plan des Werkes“) is on page 39:

Fuga I (Subject 1)

Fuga II (Subject 2 und 1)

Fuga III (Subject 3 und die vorigen)

Intermezzo (Subject 3)

Variazione 1 (Subject 1)

Variazione 2 (Subject 3)

Variazione 3 (Subject 2 und die vorigen)

Cadenza (Subject 3 und 4)

Fuga IV (Subject 4 und die vorigen)

Stretta

Below that a schema shows "Die vier Subjecte" (at least five themes) on five staves. (page 39)
On page 38 Busoni shows a passage from page 33 on six staves to set the six counterpoints clear.
A few month later this year (June 1910) Busoni started to work on his Fantasia contrappuntistica.

Ref: Kindermann, p. 244-245.

Kindermann, Jürgen (1980). Thematisch-chronologisches Verzeichnis der Werke von Ferruccio B. Busoni. Studien zur Musikgeschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts, vol. 19. Regensburg: Gustav Bosse Verlag. ISBN 3764920335