El arte de la fuga de Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750)

Abstract

This paper deepens into the research of the speculations dealing with the last work Bach attempted to publish: The ensemble of fourteen fugues, individually called Contrapunctus, plus an appendix of four Canons of increasing complexity. There was distortion in the title of the work known today as Die Kunst der Fuge, or The Art of the Fugue. Many myths surround this work because of the style of impression called partitura, its state of apparent incompleteness, and the fact that the old master would have dictated the chorale “Before Thy Throne” in his deathbed.