Of the various Bach numbers upon the programs the following distinctions may be made: The preludes and fuguesare generally contrasted in respect of the qualities of lyric and thematic writing respectively.
Mendelssohn attained great celebrity as a pianist and organist, the latter mainly by his improvisations, although he has the credit of having been one of the first to play Bach's fugues in England.
I listened to his fugues for more than two hours; I did not play, as I was not asked.
He played his fugues to me (one might call them a continuation of Bachʼs, there are forty-eight, and as many canons.
Absolute finger independence and touch discrimination and color are to be gained by playing the preludes and fugues of Bach.
This was another crotchet of Wagner's friend and probably was born of the story that Beethoven transposed the Bach fugues in all keys.
His reading of the scores of Handel and Gluck and the fugues of Bach was unique, inasmuch as he put a polyphony and spirit into the former which gave the works a new form.
Beethoven called the composition of fugues "the art of making musical skeletons.
He managed the rondo with ease and grace, and if he did not write fugues it was because the fugue form did not attract him.
I suppose playing Bach fugueson the keyboard is as exciting a game as any; that is, for those who like it.
Marianne Stecher is another successful organist and composer, and her many fuguesearn her a high rank for musicianship.
Another consisted in memorizing Bach fugues and rewriting them with a voice on each staff.
Among her later and more serious works, the G minor trio is musicianly and interesting; the three cadences to Beethoven concertos are charming examples of their kind, and the preludes and fugues (Op.
It may be remarked in passing that Spohr, in his naïve way a good enough fugue-writer, never received any instruction at all: in point of effectiveness his fugues beat anything coming from the Jadassohn and Hauptmann pupils.
But his aim was not writing fugues any more than an architect's aim is painting in water-colours.
He frankly imitated none of these things, but they must, consciously or unconsciously, have heightened the nobility of the great choral fugues that relieve the triviality of so much of his church music.
When the time came to write fugues he could write them with a certain degree of power.
Take as an example a composition by Bach, one of the preludes and fugues from "The Well-Tempered Clavichord," with which a pianoforte recital is quite apt to open.
I even have heard a rotund and affable person say that "The Well-Tempered Clavichord" was so entitled because when you listened to its preludes and fugues it smoothed out your temper and made you feel good-natured!
It is that stupendous succession of fugues and canons (or “counterpoints,” as the composer himself called them) under the collective title The Art of Fugue.
His crabbed fugues soon melt into the larger austere music of the wall.
A man named Bach, Johann Sebastian Bach, wrote fugues of an extraordinary beauty and clearness in their most complicated polyphony.
Bach's suites and somefugues from Das wohltemperirte Clavier.
The first part was completed at Coethen in 1722, and entitled "The well tempered clavier, or preludes and fugues through all tones and semitones, both with major and minor thirds.
He promised to give him instruction, and asked whether he had practised fugues diligently.
The series offugues are all on one subject; the unfinished work leaves the subject, and has nothing to do with the other fugues.
Sidenote: Musical Offering] "The Musical Offering" is a series of fugues and canons on a subject given to Bach at Potsdam by Frederick the Great.
In the funeral sermon preached by Olearius, he is mentioned as the composer of chorales, motets, concertos, fugues and preludes, but few of his compositions have been preserved.
The fugues are usually in three portions, as in Bach's great E flat fugue (Peters, 242).
In his fugues he shows perhaps most convincingly that supreme mastery of design and splendor of invention and fancy which have given him the place he holds by universal consent among the greatest artists of all time.
In the differential diagnosis, we must also consider that fugues may be carried out in confused states as well as at times in various paranoid states, and even in melancholia.
The true oniric delirium cases may lead to fugues of medicolegal importance.
He was perfectly conscious at the time of the fugues and understood his duties and possible punishments.
Upon investigation, these fuguesseemed to have the classical features of epileptic fugues.
Whoever knows this collection of preludes and fuguesin all the keys--which might almost be called the non plus ultra of our art--will know what this means.
Gavottes, Minuets, Fugues and other short pieces for the piano by Samuel Butler and Henry Festing Jones: MS.
Twelve Voluntaries and Fugues for the Organ or Harpsichord with Rules for Tuning.
For these occasions he arranged several of the fugues of Bach's "Well Tempered Clavier," for string quartette.
With very few exceptions the fugues of Bach are in modern tonality, the major key or the modern minor, with their usual relatives.
Of important arrangements, such as the études from Paganini, the organ preludes and fugues from Bach, Schubert marches, etc.
But it is a great mistake to regard Bach as a writer of fugues alone.
Among the Bach fugues which he played in London on the organ at this time were the D major, the G minor, the E major, the C minor and the short E minor.
This, one may still realize by comparing the different fuguesin Bach's "Well Tempered Clavier" with each other, and with those of any other collection.
Purcell could write intricate fugues and canons without any "harsh progressions"; that he liked these for their own sake is obvious in numberless pieces where no laws of counterpoint compelled him to write this note rather than that.
The great choral fugues of Bach and Handel have often in the accompaniment a bass moving independently of the bass voice part, and this instrumental bass was figured so that the harmonies could be filled in, on the organ.
The subjects are full of sinew, energy, colour; the technique of the fugues is impeccable; the intensity of feeling in some of these slow movements of his is sometimes almost startling when one of his strokes suddenly proclaims it.
Sidenote: As to the Bach Fugues] Of the Bach fugues do you consider the C sharp major difficult to memorize, or do you advise the use of the D flat arrangement instead?
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