The Frescobaldi Thematic Catalogue Online
Gottlieb Muffat: F18.07S. Fuga II
Scoring: Keyboard
Genre: Canzona
Key/Signature: G /♭
Main Source: Practical Harmony (1802)
Notes: During the 19th and the first half of the 20th century this fugue, published by Clementi under Frescobaldi’s name, along with F 18.06S and F 18.08S, was one of the composer’s best known works. Willi Apel (1972) thought the 3 fugues in Clementi’s Practical Harmony to be spurious, and Susan Wollenberg (1975) traced them to Gottlieb Muffat. Their earliest source is a set of 19 canzonas in Vienna 712, but Wollenberg shows that Clementi’s source more likely was Berlin 15780, where the three canzonas are interspersed among other works of Gottlieb Muffat.
