Die Kunst der Fuge

Album by Johann Sebastian Bach & Zoltán Kocsis

Die Kunst der Fuge (The Art of Fugue) is a late instrumental composition by Johann Sebastian Bach, published posthumously in 1751. It comprises a sequence of fugues and canons that systematically develop a single principal subject through intricate contrapuntal techniques, and it stands among Bach's final works as a culminating study in Baroque counterpoint.
First released: 1984

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Contrapunctus 12
    5:11
  2. 2.
    Contrapunctus 1
    2:36
  3. 3.
    Contrapunctus 2
    2:54
  4. 4.
    Contrapunctus 13
    4:03
  5. 5.
    Contrapunctus 14
    8:05
  6. 6.
    Contrapunctus 3
    2:14
  7. 7.
    Contrapunctus 15
    3:59
  8. 8.
    Contrapunctus 4
    3:10
  9. 9.
    Contrapunctus 16
    5:05
  10. 10.
    Contrapunctus 5
    3:04
  11. 11.
    Contrapunctus 6
    5:25
  12. 12.
    Contrapunctus 17
    3:41
  13. 13.
    Contrapunctus 7
    3:32
  14. 14.
    Contrapunctus 18
    7:43
  15. 15.
    Canon in Hypodiatessaron
    11:16
  16. 16.
    Contrapunctus 8
    4:22
  17. 17.
    Contrapunctus 19
    4:07
  18. 18.
    Contrapunctus 9
    2:40
  19. 19.
    Contrapunctus 10
    6:31
  20. 20.
    Contrapunctus 11
    11:51

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