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Johann Sebastian Bach: Art
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At the same time, Bach, unlike later composers, left the instrumentation of major works including The Art of Fugue and The Musical Offering open. It is likely that his detailed notation was less an absolute demand on the performer and more a response to a 17th-century culture in which the boundary between what the performer could embellish and what the composer demanded to be authentic was being negotiated.
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Bach loved writing fugues, and he decided to write a collection called The Art of Fugue. He wanted to publish it and he was making some changes, but sadly he died before he could finish it. In the last year or two of his life, he became blind in spite of two eye operations.
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Douglas Hofstadter's G�del, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid uses the music of Bach, the art of M.C. Escher and a wide range of other ideas to explore topics such as cognition, formal methods, logic and mathematics, particularly G�del's incompleteness theorem.
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