Meinolf Brüser on Bach’s “Art of the Fugue” | EUROtoday

Why “The Art of the Fugue” by Johann Sebastian Bach remained unfinished stays one of many nice, existentially disturbing mysteries of music to at the present time. For greater than 230 years it was believed that this huge encyclopedia of what was attainable in fugal method was distorted by loss of life’s intervention within the torso in 1750 – on the very second that Bach used his personal identify within the type of tones because the third theme a triple fugue! Did he actually die after affixing his signature however earlier than finishing the work? The musicologist, harpsichordist, organist and choir director Meinolf Brüser, whose most important job is a prison decide on the Fürstenwalde district courtroom in Brandenburg, has nice doubts about this.