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The Prelude and Fugue in B-flat major, BWV 866, is a keyboard composition by Johann Sebastian Bach. It is the 21st prelude and fugue in the first book of The Well-Tempered Clavier, a series of 48 preludes and fugues by the composer. It was composed no later than 1722. [1
BWV 534 – Prelude and Fugue in F minor (doubtful) [3] [4] BWV 535 – Prelude and Fugue in G minor; BWV 535a – Prelude and Fugue in G minor (alternative version of BWV 535) BWV 536 – Prelude and Fugue in A major; BWV 536a – Prelude and Fugue in A major (alternative version of BWV 536, possibly based on the original manuscript) [5]
Bach's autograph of the 4th Fugue of Book 1 Bach's autograph of Fugue No. 17 in A ♭ major from the second part of Das Wohltemperirte Clavier. Each set contains 24 pairs of prelude and fugue. The first pair is in C major, the second in C minor, the third in C ♯ major, the fourth in C ♯ minor, and so on.
Prelude, played by Kimiko Douglass-Ishizaka. The prelude is 70 measures long, and consists of three sections: [1] The first section begins from the first measure and lasts until m. 10. It is a short toccata, [2] mainly made of energetic semiquaver movements, with the ending two measures (m. 8 and 9) made of demisemiquavers. [3]
Harrison Birtwistle arranged a number of Bach organ works as Bach Measures, for chamber orchestra (1996) Edward Elgar transcribed Bach's Fantasia and Fugue in C minor BWV 537 for orchestra; Sergei Rachmaninoff made a transcription of the Violin Partita in E major, BWV 1006, including the following movements: prelude, gavotte and gigue.
The Prelude and Fugue in F minor, BWV 881, is a keyboard composition written by Johann Sebastian Bach. It is the twelfth prelude and fugue in the second book of The Well-Tempered Clavier , a series of 48 preludes and fugues by the composer.
The Prelude and Fugue in B-flat minor, BWV 867, is a keyboard composition by Johann Sebastian Bach. It is the 22nd prelude and fugue in the first book of The Well-Tempered Clavier, a series of 48 preludes and fugues by the composer. It was composed in 1722 or earlier. [1]
Unlike most of his other organ preludes and fugues, the Prelude and Fugue in C major was written when Bach was in Arnstadt. [2] Once he arrived there in 1703, he immediately fell in love with the Neue Kirche (now renamed in commemoration to Bach the Bachkirche.)