Contents:
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Facsimile: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Part I:
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Prelude and Fugue in C Major (BWV 846)
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Prelude and Fugue in C Minor (BWV 847)
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Prelude and Fugue in C-sharp Major (BWV 848)
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Prelude and Fugue in C-sharp Minor (BWV 849)
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Prelude and Fugue in D Major (BWV 850)
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Prelude and Fugue in D Minor (BWV 851)
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Prelude and Fugue in E-flat Major (BWV 852)
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Prelude and Fugue in E-flat Minor and D-sharp Minor (BWV 853)
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Prelude and Fugue in E-Major (BWV 854)
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Prelude and Fugue in E Minor (BWV 855)
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Prelude and Fugue in F Major (BWV 856)
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Prelude and Fugue in F Minor (BWV 857)
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Prelude and Fugue in F-sharp Major (BWV 858)
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Prelude and Fugue in F-sharp Minor (BWV 859) [only beginning of prelude included]
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Prelude and Fugue in G Major (BWV 860)
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Prelude and Fugue in g Minor (BWV 861)
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Prelude and Fugue in A-flat Major (BWV 862)
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Prelude and Fugue in G-sharp Minor (BWV 863)
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Prelude and Fugue in A Major (BWV 864)
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Prelude and Fugue in A Minor (BWV 865)
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Prelude and Fugue in B Major (BWV 866)
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Prelude and Fugue in B Minor (BWV 867)
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Prelude and Fugue in H Major (BWV 868)
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Prelude and Fugue in H Minor (BWV 869)
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Commentary:
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"The Well-Tempered Clavier" - Bach writes music history:
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The title page of the autograph
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On the compositional history of the work
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The autograph score
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Bibliography
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The Autograph in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin:
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On the history of the Bach Collection
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Facsimile and original
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Bibliography
The autograph score, originally a fair copy, contains later revisions and alterations reflecting the composer at work.
This new facsimile edition presents the manuscript in high-quality four-colour reproduction. Bach authority Christoph Wolff provides a Commentary to the works genesis and the characteristics of Bachs handwriting.
Martina Rebmann(Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin) describes the subsequent history of the autograph.
FACSÍMIL.
