Original upload date: Thu, 28 May 2015 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Thu, 02 Dec 2021 14:58:37 GMT
This composition was first wrongly attributed to J. S. Bach, and then to C. P. E. Bach. This fugue was written by Johann Philipp Kirnberger (1721-1783), a composer organist and theorist who studied w
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ith J. S. Bach in Leipzig in 1741. Kirnberger writes in the Classical style, sometimes called the galant style in which the harmony is chordal and there is a clear melody. Kirnberger lived at the same time as Mozart (b. 1756) and their music share many of the same qualities. This fugue has a subject that can be harmonized with one chord, having a subject made up almost entirely of the notes of the tonic chord. Near the end the fugue breaks down into a free unrestricted cadenza, scalar passages and final chord.
