The Art of the Fugue BWV 1080 2: Containing One Hundred and

2: Containing One Hundred and Twenty Original Designs in Cottage and Detail Architecture

The symphony incorporates "portraits" of Alma in the first movement and of children playing in a diabolical scherzo — some say

that he deserves

timeless stories

The Art of the Fugue BWV 1080 2: Containing One Hundred andUniquely complex in both form and structure, this work by J. S. Bach is regarded as a pinnacle of Western music. No composer possessed a greater understanding of the workings of counterpoint than Bach. In The Art of the Fugue, he summarizes counterpoint's entire known potential by using a very simple theme in the most complex possible ways. This work proved to be Bach's last, and the composer left the nature of its instrumentation undocumented.