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Old 04-01-2012, 11:03 AM   #27 (permalink)
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Would you mind sharing a few examples?

Also, Art of Fugue is one of my favorite works of his, and it's rather interesting to see that he used a motif to spell out his name. Very clever.
Sure, and since you know the Art of Fugue, you will probably know the last Contrapunctus (#14, Fuga a 3 Soggetti, BWV 1080), which was unfinished. The subject of this fugue, which you will hear at the beginning, is the BACH motif. It's amazing that he could just put his signature right into the music!

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