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Differences Between the Fugues
of Two Maestros: Bach and Beethoven
Bach
and Beethoven are two of the greatest figures in music and fugue writing, who
cannot be omitted while discussing fugue. But, since they are from different musical
periods, they show great many differences in their fugal writings. Bach, a
Baroque musician, was a teacher of all musicians and a fine architect who
‘built’ music brick by brick in a certain elaborate and well-balanced form,
while Beethoven, a Classical and early-Romantic musician, was a revolutionary
man who wrote fugues in a relatively free style and had a ripple effect on fugues
of the Romantic era. This difference is well-illustrated by these following
examples.
First, Bach’s fugues tend to keep the
continuity of music, while Beethoven’s fugues show abrupt change of tempi,
dynamics, or musical forms. For example, in the score of Bach’s Die Kunst der Fuge (The Art of Fugue in English), there is no distinct mark of tempo or
dynamics – the music flows with a certain consistency. However, in Beethoven’s
third movement of Piano Sonata No. 31, just like other musical pieces from the
Romantic era, it is possible to discover abrupt changes of tempi, dynamics, and
musical forms; the musical form changes from fugue to recitative, and back to
fugue. Second, Bach’s fugues dilute the particularity of ‘less important’ voices
to remove the disorder of music, while Beethoven’s fugues sometimes emphasize
the main voice to diminish the disorder of music and bring catharsis to the
audience. Again, in Bach’s Die Kunst der
Fuge, while the main voice makes the music flow, other voices remain
‘diluted’ to underline the main voice. However, in Beethoven’s third movement
of Piano Sonata No. 31, it is possible to discover the part when the main voice
is played in octaves and become emphasized, which is a fairly ‘Romantic’ style
of music that is hard to be discovered in Bach’s fugal works.
Although,
or because they have such great differences in fugal writing style, it is hard
to determine whose style of fugue writing is better. Bach’s fugue is Principia of fugue; every musician
should study his fugues and learn how to elaboratize the musical flow of fugue.
On the other hand, Beethoven’s fugue is the Relativity Theory of fugue; it
revolutionized the fugal form and enabled musicians to freely express their musical
ideas through exquisite fugal form. Both of them are of massive significance in
musical history and the achievements they made are second to none. To borrow
Mahler’s words, Bach and Beethoven just tunneled from the opposite sides of the
mountain and they met at the summit: the infinite possibility of fugue, and
moreover, music.
*Reference : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1yVFZrp9dc
