He continued with a poetic clarity akin to that of the piece itself. On the fact that it is unfinished: he cited the note by CPE Bach that “at this point [during Contrapunctus 14] the composer died”.

Not only across the whole span of the 24 keys, from C major to B minor, but even within the four or five minutes of a single prelude-fugue couple, Bach can take you from the solemn polyphony of a ...

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