The first pair is in Bach recycled some of the preludes and fugues from earlier sources: the 1720 In Bach's own time just one similar collection was published, by One of the earliest keyboard composers to realize a collection of organ pieces in successive keys was It was long believed that Bach had taken the title Bach's title suggests that he had written for a (12-note) It is sometimes assumed that by "well-tempered" Bach intended During much of the 20th century it was assumed that Bach wanted Johann Georg Neidhardt, writing in 1724 and 1732, described a range of unequal and near-equal temperaments (as well as equal temperament itself), which can be successfully used to perform some of Bach's music, and were later praised by some of Bach's pupils and associates. BWV 846 — Prelude and Fugue in C major, No.1 BWV 847 — Prelude and Fugue in C minor, No.2 BWV 848 — Prelude and Fugue in C-sharp major, No.3 BWV 849 — Prelude and Fugue in C-sharp minor, No.4 BWV 850 — Prelude and Fugue in D major, No.5 BWV 851 — Prelude and Fugue in D minor, No.6 BWV 852 — Prelude and Fugue in E-flat major, No.7 Prelude and Fugue in C-sharp minor, BWV 849 5. J.S. "The Mystery of Chopin's Préludes", (Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2015) p. 48.Eric Schenk (author), translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston & Winston (eds) (1959), The portions of Book I performed by Martha Goldstein and in the public domain include the following (all on harpsichord): The portions of Book I performed by Raymond Smullyan and in the public domain include the following (all on piano): The fugues employ a full range of contrapuntal devices (fugal exposition, thematic inversion, Several attempts have been made to analyse the motivic connections between each prelude and fugue,Bach's example inspired numerous composers of the 19th century, for instance in 1835 Harpsichord performances of various parts of Book I by "Mr. Kirnberger has more than once told me as well as others about how the famous Joh. An analysis of J.S Bach's Prelude and Fugue No.1 in C major, BWV 846, from the Well Tempered Clavier Book 1. Prelude and Fugue in D minor, BWV 875 • 7. Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 846 (alternative version: BWV 846a) 2. 1. Prelude and Fugue in D major, BWV 874 • 6. More recently there has been a series of proposals of Each Prelude is followed by a Fugue in the same key. – Luigi Swich, "Further thoughts on Bach's 1722 temperament" in "Early Music" XXXIX/3, August 2011, pp. Bach's son Since 1950 there have been many other proposals and many performances of the work in different and unequal tunings, some derived from historical sources, some by modern authors. Each set contains twenty-four pairs of prelude and fugue.

Prelude and Fugue in C minor, BWV 871 • 3. BWV 870 — Prelude and Fugue in C major, No.1 BWV 871 — Prelude and Fugue in C minor, No.2 BWV 872 — Prelude and Fugue in C-sharp major, No.3 BWV 873 — Prelude and Fugue in C-sharp minor, No.4 BWV 874 — Prelude and Fugue in D major, No.5 BWV 875 — Prelude and Fugue in D minor, No.6 BWV 876 — Prelude and Fugue in E-flat major, No.7 Prelude and Fugue in C-sharp major, BWV 848 4. Prelude and Fugue in C-sharp minor, BWV 873 • 5. Whatever their provenances, these schemes all promote the existence of subtly different musical characters in different keys, due to the sizes of their intervals. 401–407Leikin, Anatole. However, they disagree as to which key receives which character: Most are three- and four-voiced fugues, and there are only two five-voiced fugues (BWV 849 and 867), and one two-voiced fugue (BWV 855). Prelude and Fugue in C minor, BWV 847 (alternative version: BWV 847a) 3. Prelude and Fugue in C-sharp major, BWV 872 • 4. Bach, during the time when the former was enjoying musical instruction at the hands of the latter, confided to him the tuning of his clavier, and how the master expressly required of him that he tune all the thirds sharp." This Prelude consists, mainly of a simple series of chords, expressed by a constant reiteration of the characteristic figure (seen in the two measures above) which is repeated twice in every bar until the close, when it is expanded for variety into a freer and wider-ranging Arpeggio.Dignity and solidity are secured by the sostenuto figure in the Bass part.Its form is evidently an artistically matured version of a familiar type of extemporaneous preludizing by the use of a chain of Chords.Bach: Prelude and Fugue No.1 in C major, BWV 846 Analysis
Prelude and Fugue in D major, BWV 850 (alternative version: BWV 850a) 6. Seb. Prelude and Fugue in E-flat major, BWV 876 • 8. In each book the first Prelude and Fugue is in The two major primary sources for this collection of Preludes and Fugues are the "London Original" (LO) manuscript, dated between 1739 and 1742, with scribes including Bach, his wife Anna Magdalena and his oldest son Wilhelm Friedeman, which is the basis for Version A of Each fugue is marked with the number of voices, from two to five. A detailed guide that analyzes the structural, harmonic and thematic frame of … Prelude and Fugue in E-flat minor, BWV 877 • 9. The Well-Tempered Clavier, BWV 846–893, is a collection of two sets of preludes and fugues in all 24 major and minor keys, composed for solo keyboard by Johann Sebastian Bach.In Bach's time Clavier was a generic name indicating a variety of keyboard instruments, most typically a harpsichord or clavichord – but not excluding an organ.