BEETHOVEN FUGES


During Beethoven´s last decade there was a contrapuntal obssesion. Going back to Barroque music (Bach and Haendel).

Education with Albrechtsberger: background in counterpoint


List of Fuges:

- 1805: Fugato Eroica Symphony
- 1808: String Quartet Rasumovsky n.3 4th mov.
- 1811: Fugato 7th Symphony Allegretto
- 1815: Cello sonata op. 102 n.2 Allegro fugato.
- 1816: Piano Sonata op. 101
- 1816-17: String Quintet in D minor
- 1817-18: Piano Sonata Hammerklavier, Finale.
- 1821: Piano Sonata op. 110, Finale
- 1824: Missa Solemnis, Et vitam venturi
- 1824: 9th Symphony, Finale
- 1825-26: Grosse Fuge op 133
- 1826: String Quartet op 131, Adagio ma non troppo e molto espressivo