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The short answer
Fugue in G minor, BWV 542, arranged by Liszt is a piece by Johann Sebastian Bach from the Baroque era. PlayPiano puts it at Level 9, an estimate.
- piano arrangement
- Baroque
- Key of G minor
- grand
- stormy
- hand independence
- voicing
Also known as Arranged for piano; Bach Fugue in G Minor, BWV 542 (Piano solo); Fantasia and Fugue in G minor BWV 542; From Fastasia and Fugue in G Minor, BWV 542; J. S. Bach; by Franz Liszt.
History
Start with one clear line, then follow how the texture fills out. Liszt's piano setting brings an organ work into a single keyboard performance. Learn short passages with each voice audible before trying to create the full sonority.
Sources
How to practise it
- Keep the sustained or entering voice audible without making its supporting material heavy.
- Practise the encoded lines separately, then combine them while preserving their different rhythms.
How hard is it
The opening develops from a single line into concurrent voices by the retained early witnesses; 115 encoded measures, dense chord membership and sustained counterpoint make this an advanced piano arrangement.
About this piece
- Licence
- cc-zero
- Source
- musescore.com
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