The Art of the Fugue and A Musical Offering
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The Art of the Fugue and A Musical Offering

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The Art of the Fugue and A Musical Offering

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Among Bach's last instrumental compositions are two splendid works that reflect his genius for working complex contrapuntal figures into an expressive, apparently seamless musical texture. The Art of the Fugue, composed ca. 1745–50, consists of nineteen canons and fugues that progressively illustrate the rich variety and complexity of fugal writing. This edition, reproduced directly from the authoritative Breitkopf & Härtel score, includes a keyboard reproduction printed directly beneath the score.
A Musical Offering (1747), composed for King Frederick the Great of Prussia, comprises a three-part ricercar and a six-part ricercar for keyboard, a famous sonata for flute and violin, and a set of canons, all based on a theme devised by the King himself. Solutions of the canons and a realization of the keyboard part are included in an appendix.

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Copyright © 1992 by Dover Publications, Inc.
All rights reserved under Pan American and International Copyright Conventions.
This Dover edition, first published in 1992, is a republication of Vols. 31 and 47 of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Werke, originally published by Breitkopf & HĂ€rtel, Leipzig, 1885, 1926. The editorial commentaries for both works have been omitted, and a new publisher’s note has been added. Texts from the first editions of both works have been translated. The editors’ footnotes have been translated and several new footnotes have been added.
Manufactured in the United States of America
Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685–1750.
[Kunst der Fuge]
The art of the fugue ; &, A musical offering / Johann Sebastian Bach ; edited by Alfred Dörffel and Wolfgang Graeser for the Breitkopf & HÀrtel complete works edition.
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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. The Art of the Fugue [Die Kunst der Fuge], BWV 1080 (?–1750)
  5. Back Cover