🇩🇪Johann Sebastian Bach ： Fuge nach Erselius B-Dur BWV 955

Based on a subject by Erselius, this fugue unfolds as the subject passes from one voice to another, creating an intricate contrapuntal texture. With the subject presented at the outset as a point of reference, imitation and independent motion in the individual voices overlap, allowing a multilayered flow to emerge from a single melodic idea. A key listening point is to follow which voice carries the subject and how the answering voices join it. In performance, the balance and articulation of each voice should be carefully organized so that the subject remains clear, while the inner voices retain a natural, non-mechanical character. Keeping each melodic line in mind while shaping the whole in a single breath brings out both the clarity of the structure and the music’s forward momentum.