Sentence examples for work left incomplete from inspiring English sources

This was Bach's last work, left incomplete.

Meanwhile, in his recital at CARNEGIE HALL the brilliant French pianist PIERRE-LAURENT AIMARD will present the secular Bach, performing Contrapunctus I-XI from "The Art of Fugue," the composer's final work, left incomplete at his death.

James Levine, in a 2009 interview regarding the Met's new production of Offenbach's "Contes d'Hoffmann," a work left incomplete when the composer died, said, "People theorize that a new production is a great time to do a new version".

He began to rebuild Anazarbus, but the work was left incomplete when Nikephoros recommenced his offensive in autumn, forcing Sayf al-Dawla to depart the region.

While sometimes providing new insights into the works on display, based on their degree of "finish" or lack thereof, the curators too often are reduced to confessing on their labels that "the work was left incomplete for unknown reasons"; "we do not know why it remains in this [unfinished] state"; "we cannot tell why he never finished this oval portrait".

(Smith) ★ Brentano String Quartet (Thursday) The notion of how composers might have finished works that they left incomplete has long fascinated musicians and listeners, but guessing what long-dead composers might have done is not always the best approach.

This seems to be corroborated by the fact that the date of completion for his last works, including those left incomplete, is 1044 AH/1635.

Several works had been left incomplete, and publishers inquired about releasing a final edition of his grand collection La Comédie humaine.

Ten years of office work, of literary projects left incomplete, finally took their toll.

During his final years, Kant worked on a manuscript, left incomplete at his death, that has become known as the Opus Postumum.

Towards the end of his life, having suffered paralysis in his right-hand side, Schnittke annotated, but left incomplete, a work called Fragment, which will receive its world premiere by the London Sinfonietta who commissioned it.