School of Music Creative Professional Lecture Series

Friday, March 28, 2025, 12:50 pm in MUB 101
School of Music Creative Professional Lecture Series
"Primal Bach: My Completion of Contrapunctus XIV, Kunst der Fuge"
Willis Bodine, UF Professor of Music, emeritus

A discussion of the final quadruple fugue of Bach's "Art of Fugue," left incomplete at the composer's death, now newly completed according to the sequence of primes and with overlooked clues in the original sources. This presentation will show how I have used hitherto unnoticed musical and mathematical clues in existing manuscripts and writings to write a new keyboard-playable completion of the final fugue in Bach’s Art of Fugue -- his crowning masterwork, tragically left unfinished at the composer’s death in 1750.

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435 Newell Dr.
Gainesville

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352-392-0223

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