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===== Tonal Fugue of Considerable Development, | ===== Tonal Fugue of Considerable Development, | ||
- | The //Credo// of which this Fugue is the finale, was begun by Cherubini in Italy in the year 1778-9 (while studying under Sarti) and finished at Paris in 1806. François-Joseph Fétis, in his work on Counterpoint and Fugue, says of this noble piece of composition by Cherubini: | + | The //Credo//, of which this Fugue is the finale, was begun by Cherubini in Italy in the year 1778-9 (while studying under Sarti) and finished at Paris in 1806. François-Joseph Fétis, in his work on Counterpoint and Fugue, says of this noble piece of composition by Cherubini: |
> This fugue -- in which all the devices of its peculiar style are introduced with rare fidelity, notwithstanding the extreme difficulty arising from so large a number of voices -- had no model of proportionate development. The dread of wounding M. Cherubini' | > This fugue -- in which all the devices of its peculiar style are introduced with rare fidelity, notwithstanding the extreme difficulty arising from so large a number of voices -- had no model of proportionate development. The dread of wounding M. Cherubini' |