11 Fugues (Fn-Bnf ms. 8836)

 

The original is registered with IMSLP and is easily available. As the title suggests, it contains 11 fugues, but the opening piece is not titled or numbered, and the second through eleventh pieces are numbered 1-10. I have left the opening piece as number zero because changing the numbering that has been given to it would be confusing.
As is the tendency of not only Chausson but also other French Romantic composers, detailed notes such as "subject" (sujet) and "response" (reponse) are written in the score. I have tried to reproduce all of them in the score, but there may be some errors due to my language ability.

 

No.0 (Sujet de Bach Clavecin bien tempéré - II. 8.)

 

This piece has no title or description. Since the theme is taken from Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, I have added it as described in No.1.

 

bar1-10 : A part, main Theme

bar10-15 : B part, Episode

bar15-20 : C part, main Theme + Counter Theme

bar20-24 : D part, Interlude(3 motives)

bar24-34 : E part, main Theme + inverse Theme

bar34-40 : F part, main Theme + Counter Theme

bar40-53 : G part, inverse & augumented Theme

bar54-78 : H part, strette

 

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