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The 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87 by Dmitri Shostakovich are a set of 24 musical pieces for solo piano, one in each of the major and minor keys of the chromatic scale.The cycle was composed in 1950 and 1951 while Shostakovich was in Moscow, and premiered by pianist Tatiana Nikolayeva in Leningrad in December 1952; [1] it was published the same year.
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 WTC 2, [34] and for Version B, that is the version published by the 19th ...
The Prelude and Fugue in F-sharp major, BWV 882, is a keyboard composition written by Johann Sebastian Bach. It is the thirteenth prelude and fugue in the second book of The Well-Tempered Clavier, a series of 48 preludes and fugues by the composer.
24 sets of preludes and fugues in all major and minor keys, with an additional 25th prelude and fugue (on a theme from Ernő Dohnányi) added at the end. Twenty-Four Etudes in All Keys Twelve Master Etudes in Minor Keys, Op. 29 Twenty-Four Variations on the Theme "Happy Birthday" 2 pianos Hans Gál: 24 Preludes, Op. 83 piano 1959–60 [cc]
Mid-eighteenth century manuscript copy of Prelude, BWV 555 in the durezza style of Girolamo Frescobaldi. While originally attributed to Bach, scientific examination of the extant manuscripts by Alfred Dürr in 1987 and subsequent stylistic analysis of the score by Peter Williams have suggested that the eight preludes and fugues might have been composed by one of his pupils, Johann Ludwig Krebs.
BWV 550 – Prelude and Fugue in G major; BWV 551 – Prelude and Fugue in A minor; BWV 552 – Prelude and Fugue in E-flat major "St. Anne" (published in Clavier-Übung III) Eight Short Preludes and Fugues (553–560) BWV 553 – Short Prelude and Fugue in C major (spurious, possibly by Johann Tobias Krebs)
BWV 545 – Prelude and Fugue in C major; BWV 545a – Prelude and Fugue in C major (alternative version of BWV 545) BWV 545b – Prelude, Trio and Fugue in B-flat major (alternative version of BWV 545; the Trio is an arrangement of the finale of BWV 1029; some parts possibly by Johann Tobias Krebs) BWV 546 – Prelude and Fugue in C minor
The first two measures of the prelude are an elaboration of tonic. There is a chain of suspensions in m. 3 that leads to the secondary dominant (A major) that leads to the dominant (D major), which then leads back to tonic (G minor). The 5th measure begins with a ii-V-I progression and leads to a C dominant seventh chord.