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GREAT FUGUE.(Ludwig van Beethoven's manuscript)
Last summer, a librarian at the Palmer Theological Seminary, outside Philadelphia, reached onto the bottom shelf of a basement cabinet and pulled out a lost manuscript by Beethoven. It was a draft of an arrangement for piano, four hands, of the composer's "Grosse Fuge," or "Great Fugue" (or, as the cover inexplicably said, "Grande Tugue"). Once the property of a nineteenth-century industrialist-composer, it had disappeared, "Citizen Kane"-style, into the clutter of his belongings, some of which the seminary inherited. The manuscript was handed over to Sotheby's, which sold it in December to an unnamed buyer for $1.95 million. Shortly before the sale, the manuscript was ...
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...in particular, the fugue that is most fully documented...of his fascination for fugue: his 1992 radio interview...presque mathematiques, fugues et contrepoints notamment...revealed his passion for Beethoven's Grosse Fugue: 'cette joie rare...
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- Reference information from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music MICHAEL KENNEDY and JOYCE BOURNE January 1, 1996 700+ words
...in itself an actual fugue, is called fugato...are of the academic fugue form, but the great...Kunst der Fuge . Superb fugues occur in many works, e.g. Beethoven's Grosse fuge for...many choral comps. Fugue-form is also used...
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...a miracle. Nowhere else does Beethoven probe the dark night of the artist...European literature, but here Beethoven finds the sounds that cut through...lyricism and light, and the final fugue with which Beethoven resolves the tragedy was done...
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- Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) November 23, 2002 700+ words
...Funeral March is one of Beethoven's most expressive...in part by one of Beethoven's most intense fugues. The fullness and...of variations and fugue, vigorous and lively...elan. Guerrero's Beethoven performances continue...
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...the three final examples of Beethoven's output in the genre...magisterial demonstration of how Beethoven reinvented and expanded use of the fugue. The towering work in this trilogy is the last, Op. 111, Beethoven's final visit to his beloved...
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- Magazine article from: R & D Jueneman, Frederic B. May 1, 1991 700+ words
...pay some manner of plagiaristic homage to our creative forebears, upon whose themes we merely write variations. Mozart and Beethoven did remarkable things with themes written by less talented composers without being sued for gross plagiarism, unlike our...
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- Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel TOM STRINI June 17, 1996 700+ words
...Laufer played Beethoven's Opus 18...and the Great Fugue Opus 133 as...music, even in Beethoven's thrashing, half-mad Great Fugue. The laws of...of the Great Fugue was wrong with...A major, is Beethoven at his most...