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  Ariadne musica

  Ariadne musica is a collection of organ music by Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, first published in 1702. The main part of the collection is a cycle of 20 preludes and fugues in different keys, so Ariadne musica is considered an important precursor to Johann Sebastian Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier,...
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  The Art of Fugue

  The Art of Fugue or The Art of the Fugue (original German: Die Kunst der Fuge), BWV 1080, is an incomplete masterpiece by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). The work was most likely started at the beginning of the 1740s, if not earlier. The first known surviving version, which contained 12 fugues...
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  Große Fuge

  The Große Fuge is a single-movement composition for string quartet by Ludwig van Beethoven famous for its extreme technical demands on the players as well as for its unrelentingly introspective nature, even by the standards of his late period. It was written in 1825 and 1826, when the composer was...
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  Well-Tempered Clavier

  The Well-Tempered Clavier (Das Wohltemperierte Klavier in the original German), BWV 846–893, is a collection of solo keyboard music composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. He first gave the title to a book of preludes and fugues in all 24 major and minor keys, dated 1722, composed "for the profit and...
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  The Musical Offering

  The Musical Offering (German title Musikalisches Opfer or Das Musikalische Opfer), BWV 1079, is a collection of canons and fugues and other pieces of music by Johann Sebastian Bach, based on a musical theme by Frederick II of Prussia (Frederick the Great) and dedicated to him. The collection has...

• Sancta Susanna

  Sancta Susanna is an early opera by Paul Hindemith in one act, with a German libretto by August Stramm. Composed over a two week period in January/February 1921, its premiere was on 26 March 1922, at Opernhaus, Frankfurt. The work is his third and final in a triptych of expressionist influenced one...

• The Long Christmas Dinner

  The Long Christmas Dinner is an opera in one act by Paul Hindemith, with a English libretto by Thornton Wilder based on his play of the same name. Wilder collaborated with the composer in order to make the text work effectively with the music. It was arranged for chamber orchestra and used a...

• Symphony in B-flat for Band

  Symphony in B♭ for Band was written by Paul Hindemith, an influential German composer known for writing music in a variety of genres, including orchestral, opera, chamber, ballet, vocal and many more. The piece was completed in 1951 and premiered on April 5 of that year by the U.S. Army Band ...

• 24 Preludes and Fugues

  The 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87 by Dmitri Shostakovich is a set of 24 piano pieces, one in each of the major and minor keys of the chromatic scale. While the musical style and ideas are Shostakovich's own, it follows the form of Johann Sebastian Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier written some 200...

• Cardillac

  Cardillac is an opera by Paul Hindemith in three acts and four scenes. The libretto was by Ferdinand Lion, and based on the short story Das Fräulein von Scuderi by E.T.A. Hoffmann. The first performance was at the Staatsoper, Dresden on 9 November 1926. Hindemith revised both the score and the text...