Bach's Art of the Fugue (paperback)

Author: Johann Sebastian Bach

Editor: Donald Francis Tovey

ISBN: 9780486497648

Binding: Paperback

Section: Music

Subtitle: And A Companion to the Art of Fugue

This volume features the complete score of J. S. Bach's Die Kunst der Fuge (The Art of Fugue) in the edition prepared by Donald Francis Tovey. Originally published by Oxford University Press in 1931, Tovey's edition presents the fourteen fugues plus the four canons in open score, allowing readers to follow each individual voice. Furthermore, Tovey completed the unfinished final fugue, reintroducing the principal theme of the work's opening fugue to create a quadruple fugue.