Bach's austerely beautiful Art of Fugue has long fascinated musicians who have a taste for the modern and esoteric. The piece, left incomplete at the composer's death, reduced complex counterpoint to its bare essentials – so much that the composer didn't even indicate the instrument (or instruments) for which it was composed.
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- Show
- PublishedNovember 25, 2014 at 11:00 PM UTC
- Length16 min
- Episode41
- RatingClean