Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080

Album by Johann Sebastian Bach & Bernard Foccroulle

Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080 is a collection of fugues and canons by German composer Johann Sebastian Bach, composed in the late 1740s and published posthumously in 1751. The work systematically explores contrapuntal techniques through a series of fugues and canons built around a unifying subject and represents one of Bach's final compositions, illustrating his late-Baroque approach to fugal writing and contrapuntal demonstration.
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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Group 1: the contrapuncti with a single object - Contrapunctus 1
    3:23
  2. 2.
    Group 1: the contrapuncti with a single object - Contrapunctus 2
    3:11
  3. 3.
    Group 1: the contrapuncti with a single object - Contrapunctus 3
    2:58
  4. 4.
    Group 1: the contrapuncti with a single object - Contrapunctus 4
    4:58
  5. 5.
    Group 1: the contrapuncti with a single object - Contrapunctus 5
    3:32
  6. 6.
    Group 1: the contrapuncti with a single object - Contrapunctus 6
    4:20
  7. 7.
    Group 1: the contrapuncti with a single object - Contrapunctus 7
    4:24
  8. 8.
    Group 2: the canons and the mirror fugues - Canon in Hypodiapason (Canon alla Ottava)
    2:48
  9. 9.
    Group 2: the canons and the mirror fugues - Canon alla Decima (in Contrapunto alla terza)
    5:07
  10. 10.
    Group 2: the canons and the mirror fugues - Contrapunctus 12 rectus
    3:08
  11. 11.
    Group 2: the canons and the mirror fugues - Contrapunctus 13 rectus
    2:36
  12. 12.
    Group 2: the canons and the mirror fugues - Contrapunctus 13 inversus
    2:40
  13. 13.
    Group 2: the canons and the mirror fugues - Contrapunctus 12 inversus
    3:02
  14. 14.
    Group 2: the canons and the mirror fugues - Canon alla Duodecima (in Contrapunto alla Quinta)
    2:35
  15. 15.
    Group 2: the canons and the mirror fugues - Canon per Augmentationem in Contrario Motu
    5:16

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Group 3: the fugues contrapuncti with more than one subject - Contrapunctus 8
    7:19
  2. 3.
    Group 3: the fugues contrapuncti with more than one subject - Contrapunctus 9
    3:27
  3. 4.
    Group 3: the fugues contrapuncti with more than one subject - Contrapunctus 10
    4:38
  4. 5.
    Group 3: the fugues contrapuncti with more than one subject - Contrapunctus 11
    7:22
  5. 6.
    Group 3: the fugues contrapuncti with more than one subject - Contrapunctus 14 (unfinished)
    9:09
  6. 7.
    Group 3: the fugues contrapuncti with more than one subject - Contrapunctus 14 (completed)
    9:29

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