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Johann Sebastian Bach: Musical Offering, BWV 1079 (1747) - Canon a 2 voci cancrizan [acc solo]

from Arte della Fuga by Claudio Jacomucci

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Another Bach’s great work of maturity is Musical Offering. In 1747 Bach was invited by Frederick II at his court. The king was a master in war but also an excellent flutist and composer! Well, he gave Bach a theme (Thema Regium) and asked him to improvise a 3-voice fugue. So he did, but the King challenged him even more to improvise a six-voice fugue on the same theme. Bach answered that he would need to work the score and send it to the king afterwards. He wrote a collection of great polyphonic inventions titled on the King’s subject of which I have selected: 
Canon cancrizan, “crab canon”, a retrograde canon, per rectus et inversus, an arrangement of two musical lines that are complementary and backward, something conceptually similar to a palindrome or to a Möbius strip. 
Canon per tonos (endlessly rising canon), it modulates up a tone every cycle. With Shepard tones it could go upwards forever. It takes 6 cycles (Cm, Dm, Em, F#m, G#m, A#m) to cover an octave and being back to the initial key. 
Finally, “Your Majesty”, the Ricercare a 6, a six-voice fugue which is regarded as the high point of the entire work. I transcribed it for two accordions (4 keyboards and many register combinations) for it needs space and color, specially because my arrangement is based on the Anton Webern’s transcription for orchestra, noted for its Klangfarbenmelodie style, a technique similar to pointillism (motifs are passed on from one instrument to another after every few notes, every note receiving the "tone color" of the instrument it is played on).

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from Arte della Fuga, released July 12, 2022

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Claudio Jacomucci Amsterdam, Netherlands

Accordionist, composer

He has cooperated with Luciano Berio, Franco Donatoni, György Kurtag. Stefano Scodanibbio, Prometeo String Quartet, Michel Godard, David Moss, Terry Riley, Daniele Roccato, Francesco Dillon, Joel Rubin, AlterEgo ensemble.

He performed at Berlin Philharmonic, Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Salle Messiaen Paris, Teatro alla Scala Milan, Gaudeamus Foundation Amsterdam.
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