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The subject is the key element, the basis of the structure of the fugue form due to its melodic, rhythmic, harmonic and polyphonic features. Even from the Baroque period, the development and the final entry were the sections with the most innovative constructive aspects due to a certain freedom given to the composer in the treatment of the theme, resulting in a multitude of ways to conceive them. In 20th-century music, this freedom becomes manifest in all musical parameters (melody, rhythm, key, writing etc.), but...

“The typology of the classical sonata reflects, with distinct intensity, the great theme of the classical age: the art of leading musical ideas.” [1] After Beethoven, the sonata became an ideal of the composing conception, that could only be accessed by the creators following the “pure” music. Romanticism represented, on a certain level, a regression of rigorous structural organizational efforts in instrumental music, this decline being due to the views of romantic composers upon the tonal system, the relations of...