Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)
Fantasia and Fugue on the Theme B.A.C.H
Variations on Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen

Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)
Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Handel, Op. 24

The name of Bach was to provide a theme for a number of subsequent composers, following the example of Johann Sebastian Bach himself, who had used his own name as a fugal subject in The Art of Fugue, to be followed by his youngest son, Johann Christian, who w rote his own fugue on the same subject. The letters represent in German notation the notes B flat, A, C and B natural, an angular figure well suited to fugal treatment.

Franz Liszt, the son of a steward employed by Haydn's patrons, the Princes of Esterhazy, was to become not only one of the most dazzling virtuoso pianists of the nineteenth century, but in later life exercised extraordinary influence over generations of younger composers and players. Early ability took him to Vienna at the age o