Will here, weighing in on the NTT. A three-voice (?) fugue for keyboard, clearly in the Baroque style. One would immediately think of Bach, but the clue complicates that quite a bit, since Bach had something like 16 children... but 8 is a subset of 16, so it wouldn't be *inaccurate* to say that he had 8 children, but if that's the kind of game Joey is playing, he's an absolute rotter!
Part of me wonders if this might not be the work of one of Bach's wives though...
It can't be Handel, because Handel didn't have any kids. I've never known Telemann to be a fugal composer and I have no idea how many kids he did or didn't have.
Another part of me wonders if this might not be a fugal exercise by some later composer. The head motive certainly has a unique touch with all those gaping rests, so there is definitely a musical personality there.
I'm going to guess Anna Magdalena Bach, Fux, and Dvorak writing an etude (just because I think he had eight kids.)
NTT: Thinking post-Baroque if only because some of the parallel voice-writing seems somewhat more pianistic rather than earlier keyboard instruments? Thinking of later composers with a fugal phase, I’ll go with Mendelssohn (of whose personal life I’m realizing I know very little) Schumann (who I know wrote some fugues for piano and had some multiple of children)
Will here, weighing in on the NTT. A three-voice (?) fugue for keyboard, clearly in the Baroque style. One would immediately think of Bach, but the clue complicates that quite a bit, since Bach had something like 16 children... but 8 is a subset of 16, so it wouldn't be *inaccurate* to say that he had 8 children, but if that's the kind of game Joey is playing, he's an absolute rotter!
Part of me wonders if this might not be the work of one of Bach's wives though...
It can't be Handel, because Handel didn't have any kids. I've never known Telemann to be a fugal composer and I have no idea how many kids he did or didn't have.
Another part of me wonders if this might not be a fugal exercise by some later composer. The head motive certainly has a unique touch with all those gaping rests, so there is definitely a musical personality there.
I'm going to guess Anna Magdalena Bach, Fux, and Dvorak writing an etude (just because I think he had eight kids.)
NTT: Thinking post-Baroque if only because some of the parallel voice-writing seems somewhat more pianistic rather than earlier keyboard instruments? Thinking of later composers with a fugal phase, I’ll go with Mendelssohn (of whose personal life I’m realizing I know very little) Schumann (who I know wrote some fugues for piano and had some multiple of children)
News from yesterday about the NY Phil:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/arts/music/new-york-philharmonic-investigation.html