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Complete score of The Art of Fugue plus extensive commentary features all 14 fugues plus the four canons. The commentary outlines the fugues' contrapuntal devic

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Title: The Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080 Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach The complete Art of the Fugue by Johann Sebastian Bach, as adapted for Piano by Carl Czern

Features a historical survey of writings on the fugue from the Renaissance to the present as well as four 18th-century studies: works by J. J. Fux, F. W. Marpur