Paul Jacobs Tickets

Organist Paul Jacobs, “one of the major musicians of our time” (The New Yorker), tackles one of the timeless masterpieces, and great mysteries, of the classical repertoire in Bach’s The Art of Fugue. Written at the end of the composer’s life and left unfinished, this series of 14 fugues and four canons explores and expands the possibilities of both forms. Its interpreters have called it an “intricate, grand mosaic” and “an extraordinary fusion of complicated musical structure and undiluted emotion,” while Glenn Gould called its final incomplete fugue, “the greatest piece of music ever composed.”

Jacobs says, “Bach set out to prove that there was still much to express in writing intricate fugues. The jaw-dropping complexity of this uncompromising work...has proven a crowning achievement in the history of music. Bottomless rewards await those who engage with it.”