In the last years of his life, J.S. Bach embarked on a daunting project: a cycle of fugues and canons, about 80 minutes in length, entirely derived from a single cellular strand of melody. He ...

The Art of Fugue, J.S. Bach's last work, left incomplete at his death, is a kind of summa in which the composer gave a final overview of the contrapuntal techniques that could be used in fugal ...

Old man Johann Sebastian Bach begat 20 children by two wives. Those that lived to adulthood turned out pretty good. Rather, it was one of the children Bach created that went bad, his last one, Die ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Bach's unfinished fugue from the Art of Fugue(Public Domain) Bach's Art of Fugue is one of his more ...

If the fugue is the most complex way to structure music, Bach's "Art of the Fugue" is the most enigmatic example of that complexity. It is the summa of the composer's contrapuntal endeavors, but it ...

A starry sky of counterpoint awaits us at the concert by the string quartet Les Récréations in the Schlosskirche, a historic gem in the heart of Stuttgart. The French ensemble was recently awarded the ...

Many people, if they wonder how music is made up, suppose that it consists of a tune and an accompaniment. The paradigmatic guitarist in front of a campfire croons the melody, while his hands create ...