A master at the piano encounters a masterpiece of music history: At the Tonhalle St. Gallen, Sir András Schiff interprets Bach's "Art of Fugue" - a silent legacy of consummate clarity, depth and timeless devotion.
He has been shaping the piano world for four decades with his profound and nuanced interpretations and is one of those artistic personalities who also reflects on the world in which he lives. His almost reverent approach to music is probably the most important trademark of Sir András Schiff. This is demonstrated by the fact that he waited until his seventieth birthday to play Johann Sebastian Bach's Art of Fugue in public. It was only after a lifetime of studying Bach's oeuvre - his religion, as he himself says - that he felt ready for Bach's myth-enshrouded final word: the baroque master died while still working on the 14th and final fugue, in which Bach incorporated a motif from the notes B-A-C-H.
January 9, 2026
