G. A. Merkel: Triple Fugue in g minor

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I think this composition is good, but there is no triple fugue, because without a single fugal exposition this is not even a fugue! There are only three short melodies that combine. And notice the tenor voice, it is superfluous. The composition has 63 bars, and the tenor playes in 9 of them. It's a strange polyphony. This chould have been a perfect ok triple fugue if Merkel had treated each subject as a fugue. For the three themes, the triple construction is "perfect" as I call it - all three subjects work well also in the bass. It is not a matter of course that a fugue subject is suitable as a bass.

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