# Can anyone ID this music (early modern fugue) please?

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**Created:** [October 21, 2018, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-id-this-music-early-modern-fugue-please/823289 "2018-10-21T16:29:03Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 21, 2018, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-id-this-music-early-modern-fugue-please/823289/1 "2018-10-21T16:29:03Z")

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This short extract left me wondering where it came from. It was performed 1967 at the latest, I strongly suspect it comes from a record recreating 18th century (?) fugue-like music. At least this is what my totally untrained ear thinks. 🙂  
Who knows, if there are music experts here in this genre, I would be interested (and grateful too of course) to hear what it is. 🙂

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**Post date:** [October 21, 2018, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-id-this-music-early-modern-fugue-please/823289/2 "2018-10-21T16:40:33Z")

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It doesn’t sound like a fugue to me, although I’m no expert.

It does sound like a Classical-era piece. It’s got prominent solo violin and piano parts over an instrumental accompaniment. I don’t know of very many famous pieces with that orchestration, just Beethoven’s Triple Concerto and a concerto for piano and violin by Mendelssohn.

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**Author:** ![The\_Piranha\_Brothers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aca169/32.png) [@The\_Piranha\_Brothers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Piranha_Brothers)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2018, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-id-this-music-early-modern-fugue-please/823289/3 "2018-10-21T19:36:05Z")

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Oh I found it myself now, it was Johann Nepotek Hummel, Austria, 1800s.