The Art Of Fugue, Organ

The Kunst der Fuge is a cycle of fourteen fugues and four canon. In this edition for organ by Edition Peters.

It is to be demonstrated what, phrased by the first Bach-biographer Johann Nikolaus Forkel,  was möglicher Weise über ein Fugenthema gemacht werden könne. Die Variationen, welche sämmtlich vollständige Fugen über einerley Thema sind, werden hier Contrapuncte genannt . To clarify the contrapuntally structure of the work, Bach scored every voice (all occurringfugues, doule-fugues, play-fugues and more are four-handed at most) on individual staves, meaning scores. Doing this he follows old traditions, scoring polyphonic key-music, which reached its prime-age in the17th century.

The final sequence by Bach is controversialto this day. The fragments not only cause manifold speculations but is key to meticulous, music-historcal and critical analysis of the sources.