Fugues
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Post your favorite fugues, or quality under-appreciated fugues.
The great fugues of Bach go without saying, but I'll say a few anyway.
BWV 915 (mind the time-stamp)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5JD-HejeWg&t=4m9s
BWV 582, Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p01w8MpOkxM
BWV 944, written when Bach was 23
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOFexzAGic0
The 6-voice Ricercar from BWV 1079
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYouXtuk0T8
And of course BWV 1080, Art of Fugue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tro_gaczCxw
Though Mozart wasn't known for fugues, he wrote a few himself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr3gmzJqRcU
There's Beethoven's Große Fuge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s0Mp7LFI-k
The 20th-century composer Shostakovich wrote a series of 24 preludes and fugues. I find these 20th-century fugues very interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLzC9WY9KNk
Chapo Guzman in BWV 158
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPlb9HoOCxs
Froberger, Shostakovich, Reger, Buxtehude
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVd14ER_Gt0
>tfw writing first fugue of the new year
>>61913947
I like old French masters
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lTQc7wKsAA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOKw3PN7qtM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ9sxx4jROo
and some others, can't find good vids
>>61914776
poly, is it you?
>>61915068
of course. Who else writes fugues here?
>implying writing whole pieces of fugues aren't just trying too hard
https://youtu.be/kyy38weNZuc
https://youtu.be/5NVeCgiIWIU
>>61915235
Hello there, friend c:
Do you like the French as much as I do?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM7gHFd_Pvs
