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The Prelude and Fugue in G minor, BWV 861, is No. 16 in Johann Sebastian Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier Book I, keyboard music consisting of 24 preludes and fugues in every major and minor key.
The preludes are formally free, although many of them exhibit typical Baroque melodic forms, often coupled to an extended free coda (e.g. Book 1 preludes in C minor, D major, and B ♭ major). The preludes are also notable for their odd or irregular numbers of measures, in terms of both the phrases and the total number of measures in a given ...
The Prelude and Fugue in G-sharp minor, BWV 887, is the eighteenth prelude and fugue in the second volume of The Well-Tempered Clavier by Johann Sebastian Bach. It ...
BWV 549 – Prelude and Fugue in C minor; 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 ...
BWV 548 – Prelude and Fugue in E minor ("Wedge") BWV 549 – Prelude and Fugue in C minor; 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") (part of Clavier-Übung III)
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 Great Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542, is an organ prelude and fugue by Johann Sebastian Bach. It acquired that name to distinguish it from the earlier Little Fugue in G minor, which is shorter. This piece is not to be confused with the Prelude and Fugue in A minor, which is also for organ and also sometimes called "the Great". [1] [2]
The little Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 559 lies in the shadows of Bach's celebrated Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 543. The demisemiquaver passagework of the little prelude is typical of toccata organ writing in Southern Germany, although they can also be found in Dieterich Buxtehude 's works; the use of pedal points in BWV 559 ...