Tag: The Art of the Fugue

  • PROGRAM NOTES: SCHAGHAJEGH NOSRATI

    PROGRAM NOTES: SCHAGHAJEGH NOSRATI

    Johann Sebastian Bach GOLDBERG VARIATIONS BWV 988 Historical Background Such was Bach’s mastery of his musical materials that he was often tempted to explore a particular genre or compositional technique in a systematic way by providing a quasi-exhaustive compendium of its possibilities. Fugue, for example, is represented in the two books of The Well-Tempered Clavier…