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The C ♯ major prelude and fugue in book one was originally in C major – Bach added a key signature of seven sharps and adjusted some accidentals to convert it to the required key. In Bach's own time just one similar collection was published, by Johann Christian Schickhardt (1681–1762), whose Op. 30 L'alphabet de la musique (circa 1735 ...
BWV 884 – Prelude and Fugue in G major; BWV 885 – Prelude and Fugue in G minor; BWV 886 – Prelude and Fugue in A-flat major; BWV 887 – Prelude and Fugue in G-sharp minor; BWV 888 – Prelude and Fugue in A major; BWV 889 – Prelude and Fugue in A minor; BWV 890 – Prelude and Fugue in B-flat major; BWV 891 – Prelude and Fugue in B ...
Leopold Stokowski made a large number of transcriptions for full orchestra, including the Toccata and Fugue in D minor for organ, which appeared in the film Fantasia and the Little Fugue in G minor. Alexander Siloti made many piano transcriptions of Bach, most famously his Prelude in B minor based on Bach's Prelude in E minor, BWV 855a.
G♭ major was preferred by Alkan, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Shchedrin, Stanford and Winding. or G♭ major: 6 flats 14 F# minor: 3 sharps 15 G major: 1 sharp 16 G minor: 2 flats 17 A♭ major: 4 flats 18 Either G# minor: 5 sharps Alkan wrote a piece in A♭ minor, and Brahms a fugue in this key, but most composers have preferred G# minor. or A ...
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 was written in 1738. It was written in 1738.
Near the end of the Augmentation Canon of Bach's Canonic Variations on "Vom Himmel hoch da komm' ich her", BWV 769: [4] B–A–C–H (and its inversion) in the last bars of the Augmentation Canon of BWV 769. Near the end of Contrapunctus IV of The Art of Fugue: [7] B–A–C–H in the tenor part of the last bars of Contrapunctus IV of The Art ...
Bach's G minor fugue is "insistent and pathetic". [ citation needed ] The subject also appears in his funeral cantata Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit (God's time is the very best time). [ 1 ] The subject of the fugue employs a minor 6th leap in the first measure, then resolves it with a more conventional stepwise motion.
BWV 577 – Fugue in G major "à la Gigue" (spurious) BWV 578 – Fugue in G minor "Little" BWV 579 – Fugue on a theme by Arcangelo Corelli (from Op. 3, No. 4); in B Minor; BWV 580 – Fugue in D major (spurious) BWV 581 – Fugue in G major (not by Bach, composed by Gottfried August Homilius) BWV 581a – Fugue in G major (spurious)