OscarMicaelsson mowi:

Aug 23, 2011 - Well done!

theoryjoe mowi:

Sep 11, 2011 - my speakers started to get scratchy just as bach's unfinished ending was about to be finished. A coincidence? Great job none the less. I would have let it drift off, and the bells would have sounded after a few seconds of thinking about what you had just heard.

vkoracx mowi:

Oct 3, 2011 - and they also produced Hitler..

vkoracx mowi:

Oct 3, 2011 - nice performance why didn't you make cd?

euspbadoggy mowi:

Oct 7, 2011 - And Marx.

1985Ferris mowi:

Oct 9, 2011 - We're talking about music, arts and science, not about politics beast.

vkoracx mowi:

Oct 10, 2011 - I just wanted to point out that whatever they do-be it good or bad ,they do perfectly anyway it was just a cruel joke

NedFlanders2 mowi:

Oct 27, 2011 - To my knowledge Bach wrote the 14th contrapunktus 1747 and died 1750 so he didn't die during composing it. He probaply let it unfinished on purpuse. Bach used all possibilites to his knowledge in the 13 contrapunkti, and the end of the 14th is open. I'm not saying that your wrong, or that I'm right but that's just what I know. I hope everything is understandable, my English isn't the best. P.s. yeah I saw your comment is already 8 months old, so what ?

bakaja mowi:

Nov 12, 2011 - nice ending

yusukeundisolde mowi:

Nov 15, 2011 - amazing...

tedly10027 mowi:

Nov 23, 2011 - YOU did a WONDERFUL finish as your "comment" on the Great Bach. whether or not it is as he himself might have done -- i am almost certain that the Great Teacher and Soul in him would ENCOURAGE you to do what you did. after all - as Bach said in one of his "riddle" canons: "seek and you shall find" ...so -- why not the art of fugue also to ALL musicians after him - as we are ALL students of the great man and artist?.

tedly10027 mowi:

Nov 23, 2011 - I agree. this is your right as a human being to express what you feel about the "unfinished work:" if it is your sincere effort -- and we all know how difficult it is to create fugal/contrapuntal works in the bachian way - people should appreciate you for it. Schoenberg gave his "opinion" of works by re-orchestrating , revoicing them..including brahms, mozart, even beethoven's 9th symphony, i believe. he "touched" the great works because he had an opinion about them.

tedly10027 mowi:

Nov 23, 2011 - 2) in doing so - can people accuse schoenberg - whether he "improved" the orchestration or not ( i think he actually did ) - of "destroying" the originals? not really -- they still exist . bach's original stands as it stands, unfinished and leaving US the question: "what follows next, Master Johann ?...." and he was silenced by passing away ....and some of us want to imagine what it "might be"...and so write our own "guess" to the question left by Bach. why should that be condemned?.

MEpianist mowi:

Nov 24, 2011 - How are you supposed to play that damn other staff?

endofthecorridor mowi:

Nov 26, 2011 - What a lovely completion. The performance is first rate too. You must record it properly one day.

lebutzke1890 mowi:

Dec 28, 2011 - I think that it is a very refreshing project in composition to do such efforts as completing a work that there are indications that it would have been completed had the composer lived, as also to reconstruct possible scores for works that have been lost otherwise.

thebloads mowi:

Dec 30, 2011 - actually i can concur with hspank. Your articuation is miraculous! (an adjective very much in keeping with the religious effusiveness of youtube commentors).

PsyberJocker mowi:

Jan 4, 2012 - Handel was german too :)

robertgift mowi:

Jan 18, 2012 - Wonderful playing! Interesting ending. Thank you.

rsns311257 mowi:

Jan 19, 2012 - Very well played, thank you, really beautiful, very cantabile and yet expressive and dramatic. Even if I am not totally convinced that this fugue belongs to the art of fugue and therefore think the stretto is the begining of the termination of the fugue, and that the AoF theme needs not appear, I liked your ending.

Geopholus mowi:

Feb 7, 2012 - I am Astonished that you have given us such a Beauty.! One of my favorite puzzles and apparently that of many of the respondents is how Bach might have finished this work. You have given us an intriguing and magically rendered possibility. I love the way you have played it,, obviously with the informed spirit of a composer (yourself) and a scholar of JSB, esp your handling of the often troublesome measure 220 end figure, and 223. Nice to see insightful comments from others, like Tedly ! 

Geopholus mowi:

Feb 7, 2012 - I stand with those who argue Bach intended to add the forth theme, and that at least he considered adding it to the Art of Fugue, Actually it follows so naturally in tone as a variation on the general themes of A o F as well as the oft mentioned synchonicity with the (assumed) fourth theme brought in from the earlier fugue, as well as the testimony of JSBs son at his memorial,. it is inescapable...You have used some of JSBs devices to achieve harmonious voice leading ! Bravo ! !

dimrous1960 mowi:

Apr 19, 2012 - I think Bach left on purpose the last fugue incompleted as a gesture to show us (and challenge us) to take the path he chose. During his final days he saw the changes that were coming and wanted to make his own statement about them. As for the finishing end sorry but i found it very sort without proper exposition of the fourth theme(?) and with a subdued, colorless finale, but then its only my subjective opinion :).

Viplexify mowi:

Apr 27, 2012 - No coincidence! I love the bells at the end!