Fugues

[Tiago]

For some reason i've developed some kind of fetish for fugues lately or at least compositions in strict counterpoint. Since we don't a Well Tempered Clavier i've been looking for fugues written for guitar or transcribed (and playbable).

I need fugues.

There are some compositions of Giuliani [Fughetta], Sor [Op.6 n.8], Brouwer [fugue], Sanz [fugue], Bach [BWV1000]...

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So far...

Giuliani - Fughetta Op.113
Brouwer - Fuga N.1
Sanz - 2 fugues
Bach - BWV1000, AOF and WTC transcriptions, BWV 913, BWV 830, Chromatic Fantasy BWV 903, BWV 944, BWV 565
Campion - Fugue (arr. Delcamp)
Ponce - Fugue
Albrechtberger - Orgelfuge (arr. Mertz)
Diabelli - Two fugues Op. 46 (where are they?)
Coste - Fugue from Op. 21
Schumann - Fugue from Op. 68 and Fugueta from Op.126 (arr, Tárrega)
Carulli - Fughetta (duo, but playable solo)
Weiss - 4 fugues
Handel - Fughetta

Castelnuovo-Tedesco - The Well Tempered Guitars Op. 199 (duo)
Igor Rekhin - 24 Preludes and Fugues
Nikita Koshkin - 24 Preludes and Fugues

[pogmoor]

There's a thread about fugues here: viewtopic.php?f=6&t=40505. One of the Campion fugues I mention is in the D06 scores collection, and there is a recording of sniggl playing it here: viewtopic.php?f=48&t=51306.

[Vlad Kosulin]

There is one by Ponce (for piano) transcribed by Gregg Nestor for guitar. You can preview the first page of fugue on the big river site.
There is also book Fugues for Classical Guitar by Walt Lawry.

[Nick Payne]

Editions Orphee has a volume of transcriptions for solo guitar from Bach's WTC by Alfredo Sanchez. About a dozen and a half of the preludes and a dozen of the fugues.

There is also Castelnuovo-Tedesco's Fuga Elegiaca for guitar duo and his 24 preludes and fugues for guitar duo.

[pogmoor]

There is also book Fugues for Classical Guitar by Walt Lawry.

That looks interesting. I notice it's not too difficult to find the table of contents and one example page of music online.

[Praeludium]

WenatcheeTheHatchett, on this forum, is writing a 24 P&F set, and has already completed many. Some of them are on this forum.

While we're at this (members here writing fugue), I think PhilTheEngineer (it's his pseudo here and also on YT, where he has many videos of him playing his music).

If you're just looking for counterpoint, almost all the Fantaisies from the Renaissance include imitations (: I have a book, which is a reedition by Diana Poulton and John W.Duarte of a compilation Robert Dowland made. Many long and difficult fantasies here, sometimes with some quite daring writing (given it was written a few centuries ago). Ed. Bèrben..
There's also Albert de Rippe and Holborne. Lutenists certainly know a lot of them (:

Diabelli has written fugues. Never heard them, never seen them.

A composer called Bryan Lester apparently wrote a set of 5 Jazz fugues. You can find at least one of them on YT.

Delpriora has written a fugue for the 2011 GFA (it's a part of a variations set) - there's a video of Damien Lancelle playing it. I don't like it actually haha.

[pogmoor]

If you're just looking for counterpoint, almost all the Fantaisies from the Renaissance include imitations (: I have a book, which is a reedition by Diana Poulton and John W.Duarte of a compilation Robert Dowland made. Many long and difficult fantasies here, sometimes with some quite daring writing (given it was written a few centuries ago). Ed. Bèrben..

I take it you're referring to A Varietie of Lute Lessons?

[Praeludium]

Yes !
I was searching for it on the Bèrben website but couldn't find it.
I've only have a few looks on the pieces on it but it seems great. I actually tried to learn the first fantaisie, written by an enigmatic (for me (because I couldn't find any music from him and he seems rather obscure)) Diomède, but I gave up, since I found it too hard to memorize haha. (don't know why. Maybe because it has a very free-improvisation like form and it's rather long)

[Tiago]

Very interesting, thank you all. I'll take a look at everything that was mentioned.

[Vlad Kosulin]

Speaking about fantasies by Dowland, there is also:
John Dowland. Fantasien, by Hildegard Ruhe (Moech-Verlag, 1988)

[pogmoor]

I actually tried to learn the first fantaisie, written by an enigmatic (for me (because I couldn't find any music from him and he seems rather obscure)) Diomède.....

This probably refers to a lutenist called Diomedes Cato, who is quite well described in this Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diomedes_Cato. Even more enigmatic is the composer of the second fantasie in the collection who is described as "the most famous, the Knight of the Lute" whose identity has, I believe, provoked whole articles in academic journals, but is generally thought to have been a lutenist named Lorenzino, http://www.musico.it/Mariagrazia_Carlone/Lorenzino%20and%20the%20Knight.htm

[lagartija]

Even more enigmatic is the composer of the second fantasie in the collection who is described as "the most famous, the Knight of the Lute" whose identity has, I believe, provoked whole articles in academic journals, but is generally thought to have been a lutenist named Lorenzino, http://www.musico.it/Mariagrazia_Carlone/Lorenzino%20and%20the%20Knight.htm

What an interesting article about a musician and composer I've never heard of before!

[Toccata]

Each of Bach's three Sonatas for Solo Violin has a fugue. They are difficult but playable. Some of his keyboard fugues have been transcribed, but they are extremely difficult and playable only by very gifted guitarists. (At least anywhere near a typical keyboardist's tempo!)

[sgraham924]

Do you happen to know exactly which fugues by Bach have been arranged for guitar?

[Toccata]

Do you happen to know exactly which fugues by Bach have been arranged for guitar?

A few from The Art of the Fugue (Only the first one is reasonably playable), a few from The Well Tempered Clavier, Toccata BWV 913 (contains two fugues), Partita BWV 830 (the opening Toccata contains a fugue), The Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue BWV 903, Fantasia and Fugue BWV 944, and the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor BWV 565 immediately come to mind--there are probably others!