Ariadne musica [SEP] instrumentation
Ariadne musica
Ariadne musica is a collection of organ music by Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, first published in 1702. The main part of the collection is a cycle of 20 preludes and fugues in different keys, so "Ariadne musica" is considered an important precursor to Johann Sebastian Bach's "The Well-Tempered Clavier", which has a similar structure.
The title refers to the Greek myth in which Theseus finds his way out of Minotaur's labyrinth using a ball of thread that Ariadne, daughter of King Minos
or retrograde the theme as well as other techniques involved in this baroque form.
Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer was one of the first German composers to bring the late 17th-century French style to German harpsichord music, replacing the standard French ouverture with an unmeasured prelude. Fischer's "Ariadne musica" is a cycle of keyboard music which consists of pairs of preludes and fugues; the preludes are quite varied and do not conform to any particular model. "Ariadne musica" served as a precursor to Johann Sebastian Bach's "