Sir Donald Tovey dedicated his conjectural completion of Bach's Die Kunst der Fuge ( Art of the Fugue ) to Schweitzer.

He looked to older music for inspiration in the art of counterpoint ; the themes of some of his works are modelled on Baroque sources such as Bach's The Art of Fugue in the fugal finale of Cello Sonata No. 1 or the same composer's Cantata No. 150 in the passacaglia theme of the Fourth Symphony's finale.

Über Johann Sebastian Bachs Leben, Kunst, und Kunstwerke (" On Johann Sebastian Bach's Life, Art and Work ").

In 1985, Marshall Portnoy in the Musical Quarterly ( Oxford ) suggested that the answer to the enigma was J S Bach's The Art of Fugue.

He sewed mailbags, studied Bach's The Art of Fugue and assisted the small prison orchestra.

About half an hour in length, it is essentially an extended fantasy on the final incomplete fugue from Bach's The Art of Fugue.

Tovey made several editions of other composers ' music and in 1931 produced a completion of Bach's The Art of Fugue.

* Recordings of Tovey performing on piano were made for the National Gramophonic Society ( NGS-114-117 ) on June 6 and 11, and September 4, 1928, playing Tovey's conjectural completion of Bach's The Art of Fugue, Bach's Sonata No. 2 in A Major BWV1015 ( 1st mvt ), and Beethoven's 10th Violin Sonata in G major, Op.

Scholars have suggested that the Mass in B minor belongs in the same category as the Art of Fugue, as a summation of Bach's deep lifelong involvement with musical tradition — in this case, with choral settings and theology.

His recordings also include earlier literature such as Debussy's Études, Schumann's works for solo piano, Beethoven's late sonatas and Diabelli Variations, and Bach's Art of Fugue and Goldberg Variations.

During the Soused ( or Brown-Bag ) Period, P. D. Q. Bach wrote a Concerto for Horn & Hardart, a Sinfonia Concertante, a Pervertimento for Bicycle, Bagpipes, and Balloons, a Serenude, a Perückenstück ( literally German for " Hairpiece "), a Suite from The Civilian Barber ( spoofing Rossini's The Barber of Seville ), a Schleptet in E-flat major, the half-act opera The Stoned Guest ( the character of " The Stone Guest " from Mozart's Don Giovanni ), a Concerto for Piano vs. Orchestra, Erotica Variations ( Beethoven's Eroica Variations ), Hansel and Gretel and Ted and Alice, an opera in one unnatural act ( Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel and the 1969 film Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice ), The Art of the Ground Round ( Bach's The Art of Fugue ), a Concerto for Bassoon vs. Orchestra, and a Grand Serenade for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion.

Bach's Art of Fugue.

* Counterpoint, contains Bach's Art of Fugue and works by Conlon Nancarrow.

Recently, this trend has been revived with commissioning the harpsichordist, conductor, and scholar Mahan Esfahani to write a new orchestration of Bach's Art of Fugue, which was premiered at the BBC Proms in July of 2012.

* Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's Versuch über die wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen goes into its third edition.

This double fugue shares a key signature and several features with the last fugue from Bach's The Art of Fugue.

He was interviewed about Bach's Art of Fugue in the documentary film Desert Fugue.

He is probably best known for his orchestral arrangement ( and recording ) of Johann Sebastian Bach's The Art of Fugue.

The film of his rehearsal of his edition of Bach's The Art of Fugue with the CBC Toronto Chamber Orchestra shows him using a baton throughout, and very effectively.

He has published critical editions of the work of various baroque composers, including a keyboard edition ( and his own recording ) of Johann Sebastian Bach's The Art of Fugue that contains his own completion of the final unfinished fugue.

Aimard was featured recording Bach's The Art of Fugue in the 2009 award-winning German-Austrian documentary Pianomania, about Steinway & Sons ' piano technician Stephan Knüpfer, which was directed by Lilian Franck and Robert Cibis.

Also, the individual contrapuntal parts of many instrumental compositions, particularly fugues, such as those found in Bach's " The Art of Fugue " and " The Musical Offering ", may also be called SATB.

Robert Huw Morgan plays Bach's Great Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542 | Fantasia and Fugue in G minor on the Fisk-Nanney organ at the Stanford Memorial Church in Stanford, California.

* October 14 – the London Symphony Orchestra opens its winter season, conducted by Alfred Coates, in a programme including Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor orchestrated by Alexander Goedicke, Respighi's Roman Festivals, Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto ( with soloist Shura Cherkassky ), and Brahms's Fourth Symphony.

Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor.

Bach's Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue: Critical Edition with Commentary.

Some might criticize Disney's animators for providing a pictorial interpretation of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, but nobody can deny an extramusical association for Dukas's The Sorcerer's Apprentice.

Bach's toccatas are among the most famous examples of the form, and his Toccata and Fugue in D Minor BWV 565 is one of the most popular organ works today, although its authorship is disputed by some authorities.

These had green labels, and the catalogue included some ambitious items, such as an abridged version ( 1925 ) of Edward Elgar's oratorio The Dream of Gerontius and, from Novello, what has been reported as the first recording of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 ( arranged for piano by Carl Tausig ) and a complete recording of Mendelssohn's First Piano Concerto, her sole recording of a work extending over more than two record sides.

), the oratorio The Seasonings ( Haydn's The Seasons ), Diverse Ayres on Sundrie Notions, a Sonata for Viola Four Hands, the chorale prelude Should, a Notebook for Betty Sue Bach ( Bach's Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach and Buddy Holly's " Peggy Sue "), the Toot Suite, the Grossest Fugue ( Beethoven's Grosse Fuge ), a Fanfare for the Common Cold ( Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man ) and the canine cantata Wachet Arf!

Konami's 1983 arcade game Gyruss utilized five synthesis sound chips along with a DAC, which were partly used to create an electronic rendition of J. S. Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor.

This was in preparation to perform Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor for an audience of 8, 000 people at London's Royal Albert Hall on the second largest pipe organ in the United Kingdom.

* 1727 – Premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig

* 1724 – Premiere performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion BWV 245 at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.

Historical studies of music are for example concerned with a composer's life and works, the developments of styles and genres ( e. g. baroque concertos ), the social function of music for a particular group of people ( e. g. court music ), or modes of performance at a particular place and time ( e. g. Johann Sebastian Bach's choir in Leipzig ).

* April 15 Repeat performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig

* April 11 – Première of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion ( BWV 244b ) at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig.

* April 19 – Premiere of the first Leipzig version of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Mark Passion pastiche BWV deest BC D 5b at the St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig

* March 30 – 2nd performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St. John Passion BWV 245 ( including 5 movements from his " Weimarer Passion ") at the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig.

A point of hot controversy today is the so-called " Rifkin hypothesis ," which re-examines the famous " Entwurff ," Bach's 1730 memo to the Leipzig City Council ( A Short but Most Necessary Draft for a Well Appointed Church Music ) calling for at least 12 singers.

Among Bach's duties during his tenure at Leipzig ( 1723 – 50 ), was teaching Latin ; his early training included rhetoric.

( Philologist and Rector of the Leipzig Thomasschule, Johann Matthias Gesner, for whom Bach composed a cantata in 1729, published a substantial Quintilian edition with a long footnote in Bach's honor.

Among Bach's duties during his tenure at Leipzig ( 1723 – 50 ), was teaching Latin.

Philologist and Rector of the Leipzig Thomasschule, Johann Matthias Gesner, for whom Bach composed a cantata in 1729, published a substantial Quintilian edition with a long footnote in Bach's honor.

In Leipzig at Bach's time, a boy soloist performed the difficult part which is now sung by contraltos and countertenors.

It is unknown exactly when the work was composed, but copies dated 1730 suggest it may have been composed later than the other two concertos for violin, perhaps during Bach's time as director of the Collegium Musicum in Leipzig.

* April 12 Possible premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's last St Mark Passion pastiche ( BC D 5 ) at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig.

One such trip was to Leipzig in 1950 for a music festival marking the bicentennial of J. S. Bach's death.

In Leipzig, an enormous archive with recordings of all of Bach's music was compiled, along with many historical documents and letters both to and from him.

* April 31 Possible premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's last St Mark Passion pastiche ( BC D 5 ) at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.

* March 30-Repeat performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion ( BWV 245, BC D 2b BWV 245a, b, and c ) at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig ( using parts from his Weimarer Passion ).

Johann Sebastian Bach held Zelenka in high esteem, as evidenced by a letter from Bach's son C. P. E. Bach to Johann Nikolaus Forkel, of 13 January 1775, and Zelenka was a guest at Bach's home in Leipzig.

One, originally identified as an authentic Bach autograph from his Leipzig period, is now identified as being a 1726 copy by Bach's second wife Anna Magdalena Bach, and is the companion to the earliest surviving handwritten copy of the six suites Bach wrote for solo cello.

At Bach's time, the German Magnificat was regularly sung in Leipzig in Vesper services in a four-part setting of the 9th psalm tone ( Tonus Peregrinus ) by Johann Hermann Schein.