Bach-A. Boito
Arrangements/Transcriptions of Bach's Works by Arrigo Boito

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Arrigo Boito - Short Biography

Works

Work

No.

Year

Organ

Fuga (Fugue) (incorporating the BACH motif)

1888

This work is listed in Prinz but there is no such work listed among Boito’s compositions given in the Oxford Music Online or MGG1. In 1888 the Italian magazine Musica Sacra, organized a compostion competition for the renewal of the organ world of Italy. They chose Boito's theme, "Fede a Bach" ("Belief in Bach"), whose letters in German tone letters should be used as a fugal subject of 9 notes, which included at the end of it the BACH motif.. Marco Enrico Bossi and Guglielmo Zuelli won the 1^st prize with entire fugues based upon Boito's theme. Giovanni Battista Polleri also composed a fugue using Boito’s theme.

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Prepared by Aryeh Oron (August 2011)

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