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The Well-Tempered Clavier, BWV 846–893, consists of two sets of preludes and fugues in all 24 major and minor keys for keyboard by Johann Sebastian Bach. In the composer's time clavier referred to a variety of keyboard instruments, namely the harpsichord , the clavichord and the organ (which operates using air instead of strings), but not ...
The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: BWV 870 – Prelude and Fugue in C major ... Name of the composition: if the composition is known by a German incipit, ...
Well temperament (also good temperament, circular or circulating temperament) is a type of tempered tuning described in 20th-century music theory. The term is modeled on the German word wohltemperiert. This word also appears in the title of J. S. Bach's famous composition "Das wohltemperierte Klavier", The Well-Tempered Clavier.
The Prelude in F minor of The Well-Tempered Clavier book 1, in the BGA known as Vol. 14, p. 44, over eighty years before it was given the number 857 in the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis. In the 2nd half of the 19th century the Bach-Gesellschaft (BG) published all Bach's works in around 50 volumes, the so-called Bach Gesellschaft Ausgabe (BGA). [3]
The Well-Tempered Clavier; P. Prelude and Fugue in B minor, BWV 893; Prelude and Fugue in B-flat major, BWV 866; Prelude and Fugue in B-flat minor, BWV 867;
BWV 856 – Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Prelude and Fugue No. 11 in F major; BWV 857 – Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Prelude and Fugue No. 12 in F minor; BWV 858 – Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Prelude and Fugue No. 13 in F-sharp major; BWV 859 – Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Prelude and Fugue No. 14 in F-sharp minor
Helmut Walcha (27 October 1907 – 11 August 1991) was a German organist, harpsichordist, music teacher and composer who specialized in the works of the Dutch and German Baroque masters. Blind since his teenage years, he is known for his recordings of the complete organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach , entirely played by memory.
However, as several commentators have noted, [61] at a time when Bach was busy composing counterpoint for the second book of The Well-Tempered Clavier and the Goldberg Variations (Clavier-Übung IV) using a very wide harpsichord range, Bach wrote the duets to lie comfortably in the range C to c″″ ′ in Helmholtz pitch notation (C2 to C6 in ...