Three Fugues

By: JS Bach arr Paul Archibald

These three fugues have been taken from The Art of Fugue that Bach composed between 1749 and 1750. The work was, sadly, left unfinished at the time of his death, but still represents one of the greatest examples of this most demanding type of contrapuntal writing. These three, as in the twenty or so that comprise the complete work, are all based on versions of the same theme. As no instrumentation was specified in either the autograph or the first edition, it is just as appropriate to perform them on trumpets as any other instruments.