Fugue sur le nom de Bach
Fugue · in G minor
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov 1844–1908
G minor
Key
Fugue
Form
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Themes & character
The B-A-C-H motif·Self-taught counterpoint·Homage to Bach·Study-period work
At a glance
- Key
- G minor
- Form
- Fugue
About the piece
A fugue built on the musical cryptogram B-A-C-H, which in German notation spells B♭, A, C, B natural, the four-note motif Bach himself used and which composers from Liszt to Schoenberg have taken up as an act of homage.
Rimsky-Korsakov wrote fugues in some quantity during the 1870s, when, newly installed as a professor of composition and acutely aware of the gaps in his own training, he put himself through a rigorous private course in counterpoint. This piece is a product of that self-imposed apprenticeship.
The composer
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
1844–1908
Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian composer, a member of the group of composers known as The Five. His best-known orchestral compositions—Capriccio Espagnol, the Russian Easter Festival Overture, and the symphonic suite Scheherazade—are staples of the classical music repertoire, along with suites and excerpts from some of his fifteen operas. Scheherazade is an example of his frequent use of fairy-tale and folk subjects. He was the husband of the composer Nadezhda Rimskaya-Korsakova.
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