Futility Closet

An idler's miscellany of compendious amusements

  • About
  • Contact
Support Us!
  • Blog
  • Podcast
  • Books
  • Store

Simple Enough

Anton Reicha’s piano fugue number 18 has an uninspired subject — it’s just the same note repeated 34 times:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anton_Reicha_-_fugue_18_sujet_1.png
Image: Wikimedia Commons

Or maybe that is inspired?

November 1, 2015November 25, 2018 | Art

Post navigation

← Puzzling Lines
Short Work →

Explore

Random Post

Archives

Categories

  • Art
  • Crime
  • Death
  • Entertainment
  • History
  • Hoaxes
  • Humor
  • Language
  • Literature
  • Oddities
  • Podcast
  • Poems
  • Puzzles
  • Quotations
  • Religion
  • Science & Math
  • Society
  • Technology
  • Trivia
  • Uncategorized

kraken ad 246 px

Patrons

  • Website Supporters
  • Podcast Supporters

Follow

  • Follow @_FutilityCloset

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to receive notifications of new blog posts by email.

Site Admin

  • Log in

Info

  • About Futility Closet
  • Support Us!
  • Books
  • Podcast
  • Website Supporters
  • Podcast Supporters
  • Twitter
  • Chess notation
  • Contact/Submissions

ABOUT

Futility Closet is a collection of entertaining curiosities in history, literature, language, art, philosophy, and mathematics, designed to help you waste time as enjoyably as possible.

You can read Futility Closet on the web, subscribe by RSS, or sign up to receive a free daily email -- see "Subscribe by Email" in the sidebar.

You can support us by telling your friends about us, leaving a review of the books or podcast on Amazon or iTunes, pledging to our Patreon campaign to support the podcast, or contributing directly via the Donate button in the sidebar above. Thanks!

CREDITS

© Futility Closet 2005-2020