komponiert 1845
Herrn Carl Reinecke gewidmet
Nicht schnell, d-Moll
Sehr lebhaft, d-Moll
Nicht schnell und sehr ausdrucksvoll,
f-Moll
Im mässigen Tempo,
F-Dur
Schumann
attempted to write poetic fugues, where “the silver thread of fantasy
ever entwines the chain of rule.” In the Neue Zeitschrift für
Musik, Schumann wrote in 1837: “In any case, the best fugue is always
that which the public believes is a Strauss waltz, in other words where
the artistic foundation is covered as by a flower, and we only see the
flower.” Schumann’s Fugues stand in marked contrast to the virtuoso
piano writing of his earlier works. Reduced to a narrow compass, the Fugues
are the result of an intensive preoccupation with Bach. The themes are
typical for Schumann, and are built from the interval of a fifth in connection
with a triadic motif. The sonically more wide-ranging BACH Fugues, op.
60, were composed for the “Pedalflügel” or organ. They stand in relation
to the Fugues, op. 72 much as Bach’s Inventions relate to his Art of the
Fugue.
Translation: William Melton
© Franz Vorraber
© Franz Vorraber