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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 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 ...
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)
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]
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
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.
Ariadne musica is a collection of organ music by Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, first published in 1702.The main part of the collection is a cycle of 20 preludes and fugues in different keys, so Ariadne musica is considered an important precursor to Johann Sebastian Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, which has a similar structure.
Prelude and Fugue in F minor Published as separate pieces in Weinberger's edition (vol. II, nos. 3 & 14). [a] 409 * Prelude and Fugue in F sharp major Fugue also attributed to J. S. Bach (BWV Anh. II 97/Anh. III 181→) [8] 410 Prelude and Fugue in G major 411 Toccata and Fugue in A minor 412 Prelude in F major 413 Prelude in F major 414