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ANDRÉ ISOIR 39 So we shall go one trying to discover the secrets of this music, which forms the most highly complex of systems, and whose material - unintentionally or otherwise - is apparently inexhaustible. Would not Bach have deemed it vain to provide all the keys to the world of counterpoint whose limits he was exploring in these pieces, by renouncing the full potential development of the titanic fugue with four themes, marked as if by chance by the seal of his patronymic? Be that as it may, it has to be admitted that The Art of Fugue resists all notion of finality; we are simply left contemplating the immensity of the space that opens up before us - as infinite as time itself, and liable to virtual evolution, and which gives ‘this farewell froma brilliant artist the transcendental character of art conceived on the threshold of eternity.’