Invertible Fugue on Four Subjects (Tovey, Donald Francis)

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Publisher. Info. Ryoichi Kazumi, 2025.
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Misc. Notes Source: Die Kunst der Fuge (Oxford University Press, 1931); reprinted from Dover, 2013
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Work Title Invertible Fugue on Four Subjects
Alternative. Title Final Invertible Fugue on Four Subjects, as required by Mizler's statement
Composer Tovey, Donald Francis
Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No. None [force assignment]
Key D minor
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 1 fugue (rectus and inversus)
First Publication. 1931 - Oxford: Oxford University Press (as an appendix for Tovey's edition of Die Kunst der Fuge)
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period Romantic
Piece Style Romantic
Instrumentation violin, viola, 2 cellos (or piano 3 hands)
Related Works A conjectural finale for Die Kunst der Fuge by Johann Sebastian Bach
Extra Information Based on a description from Nekrolog: "His [J.S.Bach's] last illness prevented him from completing according to plan the last fugue but one, and from working out the last, which was to contain 4 themes and to be inverted note for note continuously in all 4 parts".