Concert Johann Sebastian Bach. Die Kunst der Fuge.Performed by Kevin Bowyer (Great Britain) World famous Mariinsky Ballet and Opera Theatre - Opera and Concert Hall
Schedule for Johann Sebastian Bach. Die Kunst der Fuge.Performed by Kevin Bowyer (Great Britain) 2022
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach Organist: Kevin Bowyer
Orchestra: Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra
Johann Sebastian Bach`s The Art of the Fugue
was the last and one of the most complex and significant works by
the maestro (1749–1750). The composer did not live to complete
the final fugue of the cycle. In 1752, after Bach’s death,
the cycle was published by Bach’s son Carl Philipp Emanuel. Bach
completed the score of the cycle, but he did not indicate for which
instrument – or group of instruments – it was intended; and so it is
most frequently performed either on the piano or the organ, although
there are also orchestral versions. Having made it his task to establish a
unique academy of counterpoint, Bach named all of his fugues “counterpoints”,
thus underlining the integral unity of the entire cycle. The
Art of the Fugue is a deeply considered and logically structured work.
The fugues follow one after the other according to the principle
of ascending from the simple to the complex. Counterpoint No 19,
which completes this grandiose cycle, is an unfinished fugue to four themes in
which Bach’s counterpoint brilliance reaches its zenith. But at this peak,
the music … breaks off. Thus the performer is always faced with
the question of either completing the composition of the fugue
himself or of stopping on the final note written by Bach. Pavel
Velikanov
Schedule for Johann Sebastian Bach. Die Kunst der Fuge.Performed by Kevin Bowyer (Great Britain) 2022
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