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Apropos of our musical discussions in the post-chat this evening, here’s the Prelude and Double Fugue in D Minor by Johann Ludwig Krebs (JS Bach’s last student and the one he was quite proud of). I call the fugue the “Fugue to end all Fugues”: a double fugue in three sections ,(Kind of a sonata-fugue, like J.S. Bach’s “Wedge”) Subject in the first section: counter-subject begins the second section in the pedals, then at certain points both subject and counter-subject are heard together, then the third section begins with the subject in inversion (as a new subject), and then all three get kicking around(Go to 50:57 for the Prelude (lots of pedal solos) and the double fugue follows at about 1:00:00). A fugal masterpiece by JS Bach’s last student and the last great Baroque master in his own right:

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