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    In classical music, a fugue (/fjuːɡ/) is a contrapuntal, polyphonic compositional technique in two or more voices, built on a subject (a musical theme)...
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    later turned to orchestral compositions, such as the popular Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart (1914), and to works for choir and orchestra such as...
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  • loose attempt to build on the unfinished triple fugue that closed Johann Sebastian Bach's "Art of the Fugue". The second side of the LP is a three-part composition...
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    accompanied by a manuscript copy of the composer's Fantasy and Fugue, K. 394. I composed the fugue first and wrote it down while I was thinking out the prelude...
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    Mass: between its opening and closing movements—the prelude and "St Anne" fugue in E♭ major, BWV 552—are 21 chorale preludes, BWV 669–689, setting two parts...
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  • Todesfuge (redirect from Death Fugue)
    "We". The structure of the poem has been said to reflect that of a musical fugue in that phrases are repeated and recombined, comparably to the musical genre...
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    Polka and Fugue Polka and Fugue, Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Fritz Reiner, conductor; RCA Living Stereo 82876-663762 (SACD) Polka and Fugue, Pro Arte...
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    Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Hiller, Op. 100, is a set of variations for orchestra written by the German composer Max Reger in 1907 after he had...
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  • and Fugue in E-flat for the reception. In 1952, after marrying Gladys Müller, with whom he had two children, Tobias and Simone, he moved to Munich, where...
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  • 279/189d (Munich, Autumn 1774) Piano Sonata No. 2 in F major, K. 280/189e (Munich, Autumn 1774) Piano Sonata No. 3 in B♭ major, K. 281/189f (Munich, Autumn...
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    where František Kupka exhibited his abstract painting Amorpha, Fugue en deux couleurs (Fugue in Two Colors) (1912), the poet Guillaume Apollinaire named...
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    Bach, who wrote at least two fugues on Albinoni's themes (Fugue in A major on a theme by Tomaso Albinoni, BWV 950, and Fugue in B minor on a theme by Tomaso...
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  • Blackbird ECM 1469/70 1992 Keith Jarrett Dmitri Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op. 87 ECM New Series ECM 1471 1992 Kim Kashkashian, Dennis Russell Davies...
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    would be so happy if I could whip through my opera for him and then play a fugue or two, for that's what he likes. Mozart did indeed soon meet the Emperor...
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    premiered Berlin 1929 Prelude and Fugue in E-flat major Prelude and Fugue in C minor Prelude and Fugue in G major Prelude and Fugue in D major Chorale Prelude...
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  • (only in US version) "Wintering" "The Hanging Man"* "Little Fugue"* "Years"* "The Munich Mannequins"* "Totem"* "Paralytic"* "Balloons"* "Poppies in July"*...
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  • Rollerball (1975 film) (category Films shot in Munich)
    film. He used the "Rollerball" name as his nickname. Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor is performed on organ by Simon Preston during the opening title...
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    fragment; lost) D 24A, Fugue in C major for piano or organ (1812?) D 24B, Fugue in G major for piano or organ (1812?) D 24C, Fugue in D minor for piano...
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    Wassily Kandinsky (category Academy of Fine Arts, Munich alumni)
    sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30. In 1896 Kandinsky settled in Munich, studying first at Anton Ažbe's private school and then at the Academy of...
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    critical and popular success when he conducted the Munich Philharmonic in its first performance, in Munich, on 12 September 1910. The fusion of song and symphony...
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    Jupiter Symphony (a personal favorite of Strauss as a conductor) and the Fugue from Bach's Solo Violin Sonata in G minor BWV 1001. Strauss also used it...
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    35: Bach fugue arranged for string quartet (fragment) (1817) Hess 36: Handel fugue arranged for string quartet (1798) Hess 37: Mozart fugue arranged for...
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  • Als aus Ägypten Israel, K. 343/336c (c. 1787) Fugue in E♭ major, K. 153 (375f) (incomplete) (1782) Fugue in G minor, K. 154 (385k) (incomplete) (1782)...
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  • Works, Vol. 10. Prelude and fugue in E minor op. 85, no. 4; Excerpts from 52 Chorale Preludes op. 67; Prelude and fugue in G-sharp minor (1906); Chorale...
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    Stravinsky) Stravinsky 4:38 5. "The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue No. 1 in C Major, BWV 870" (by Glenn Gould) Bach 4:51 6. "Symphony No. 5...
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  • (Johann Sebastian Bach)" Peter Hurford 5:55 10. "Prelude (Fantasy) and Fugue in G Minor, BWV 542 - "Great": 1. Praeludium (Fantasy) (Johann Sebastian...
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    tertii toni, where a fugue subject consists of sixteen repeated E's. Kerll wrote numerous non-keyboard works, especially during the Munich years: while he...
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  • plane crash, she begins sleepwalking which later develops into psychogenic fugue, causing her to wander around the woods in the middle of the night. As an...
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    Plato's "Symposium" (1954); the score On the Waterfront (1954); and Prelude, Fugue and Riffs, composed in 1949, but only premiered in 1955, for jazz big band...
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    both F minor and F major, before transitioning into a fugue based on its second theme. The fugue builds to a climax, ending abruptly on the C major dominant...
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