The Art of Fugue Quotes

“Not even the stretto fugues of The Art of Fugue are as single-minded as the Fugue in C Major, whose twenty-seven bars include no episodes and, apart from subject entries, no more than a total of two bars of transitional music preparing the fugue’s three cadences . . . plus a miniature peroration in which the whole thing gently goes up in smoke, up to a high C we have never heard before.”
― Joseph Kerman, The Art of Fugue: Bach Fugues for Keyboard, 1715–1750