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BWV 574a – Fugue in C minor (alternative version of BWV 574) BWV 575 – Fugue in C minor; BWV 576 – Fugue in G major; 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)
The six-part fugue in the "Ricercar a 6" from The Musical Offering, in the hand of Johann Sebastian BachIn classical music, a fugue (/ f juː ɡ /, from Latin fuga, meaning "flight" or "escape" [1]) is a contrapuntal, polyphonic compositional technique in two or more voices, built on a subject (a musical theme) that is introduced at the beginning in imitation (repetition at different pitches ...
The subject of the fugue is composed of three separate motifs, all of which can be found in canzonas and ricercars. The 19th-century Bach scholar Philipp Spitta praised the fugue, particularly its modulations. Williams has suggested that "perhaps the imaginative penultimate bar was inspired by J. S. Bach". [8] [3] Prelude and Fugue in A minor ...
BWV 853 – Prelude and Fugue in E-flat minor (The fugue of this work is in D-sharp minor, the enharmonic key of E-flat minor) BWV 854 – Prelude and Fugue in E major; BWV 855 – Prelude and Fugue in E minor BWV 855a – Prelude in E minor (early version of the prelude of BWV 855), and Fughetta [15] BWV 856 – Prelude and Fugue in F major
Where the 1998 version of the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (BWV 2a) described BWV 855a as only a Prelude, based on its appearance in the Klavierbüchlein für Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, [2] BWV 855a may also refer to both this Prelude and a Fughetta in E minor, found in a manuscript copy made between 1750 and the early 19th century, once owned by F. Konwitschny but later lost.
BWV 574a – Fugue in C minor (alternative version of BWV 574) BWV 574b – Fugue in C minor (alternative version of BWV 574) BWV 575 – Fugue in C minor; BWV 576 – Fugue in G major (doubtful) [10] BWV 577 – Fugue in G major à la Gigue (doubtful) [11] BWV 578 – Fugue in G minor ("Little") BWV 579 – Fugue in B minor (on a theme by ...
The Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 846, is a keyboard composition written by Johann Sebastian Bach. It is the first prelude and fugue in the first book of The Well-Tempered Clavier, a series of 48 preludes and fugues by the composer. An early version of the prelude, BWV 846A, is found in the Klavierbüchlein für Wilhelm Friedemann Bach.
A prelude and fugue is a musical form generally consisting of two movements in the same key for solo keyboard. In classical music , the combination of prelude and fugue is one with a long history. Many composers have written works of this kind.