ABSTRACT
It reads: ‘Ueber dieser Fuge, wo der Nahme BACH im Contrasubject angebracht worden, ist der Verfaßer gestorben’.1
This text puzzles music lovers and, perhaps even more so, professional musicians. In view of the known details about Bach’s inability to compose music in the last months of his life, a certain metaphorical quality of this inscription is apparent, thus leading to a simple acceptance of its existence, without looking for any actual relation to historical facts.
