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The Art of Fugue seems to have occupied Bach's mind throughout the last decade of his life, and inspires reverence partly because the final fugue in the collection was left incomplete, trailing off into thin air, due to the composer's last illness. When the work was published, the editors included the so-called deathbed chorale, which Bach supposedly dictated to an attending visitor. Donald Macleod explores the music associated with the very end of the great composer's life, concluding with the final section of the monumental work which dominated Bach's last decade, the Mass in B Minor.