ABSTRACT
The last piece in The Art of Fugue is the one marked in the Original Edition as Fuga a 3 Soggetti. Was that also Bach’s last composition? Furthermore, was the whole cycle, called The Art of
Fugue, Bach’s last composition? The person whose acquaintance with the subject matter was considered totally reliable did answer this question. Johann Sebastian Bach’s obituary was written by Carl Philipp Emanuel and Johann Friedrich Agricola.2 In this document, which includes one of Bach’s earliest biographies, it is unambiguously stated: ‘Die Kunst der Fuge. Diese ist das letzte Werk des Verfassers …’.3
