Editing Fugue (section)

===Romantic era===
By the beginning of the [[Romantic music|Romantic era]], fugue writing had become specifically attached to the norms and styles of the Baroque. [[Felix Mendelssohn]] wrote many fugues inspired by his study of the music of [[Johann Sebastian Bach]].

Johannes Brahms' ''Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel'', Op. 24, is a work for solo piano written in 1861. It consists of a set of twenty-five variations and a concluding fugue, all based on a theme from George Frideric Handel's ''Harpsichord Suite No. 1 in B♭ major'', HWV 434.
[[File:Liszt B minor sonata fugue subject.png|thumb|400px|Liszt Piano Sonata fugue subject [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwXtuavTed0 Link to passage]]]
[[Franz Liszt]]'s [[Piano Sonata in B minor (Liszt)|Piano Sonata in B minor]] (1853) contains a powerful fugue, demanding incisive virtuosity from its player:

[[Richard Wagner]] included several fugues in his opera ''[[Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg]]''. [[Giuseppe Verdi]] included a whimsical example at the end of his opera ''[[Falstaff (opera)|Falstaff]]''<ref>{{cite book |last1=Shaw |first1=Bernard |title=The Great Composers: Reviews and Bombardments |date=1978 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-03266-8 |page=223 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BmQTU3WvxSYC&pg=PA223 |language=en}}</ref> and his setting of the [[Requiem (Verdi)|Requiem Mass]] contained two (originally three) choral fugues.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Budden |first1=Julian |title=Verdi |date=December 2015 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-027398-9 |page=340 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tsQ2DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA340 |language=en}}</ref> [[Anton Bruckner]] and [[Gustav Mahler]] also included them in their respective symphonies. The exposition of the finale of Bruckner's [[Symphony No. 5 (Bruckner)|Symphony No. 5]] begins with a fugal exposition. The exposition ends with a chorale, the melody of which is then used as a second fugal exposition at the beginning of the development. The recapitulation features both fugal subjects concurrently.{{Citation needed|date=April 2018}} The finale of Mahler's [[Symphony No. 5 (Mahler)|Symphony No. 5]] features a "fugue-like"<ref>[[Constantin Floros|Floros, Constantin]]. (1997, p. 135) ''Gustav Mahler: The Symphonies'', trans. Wicker. Amadeus Press.</ref> passage early in the movement, though this is not actually an example of a fugue.