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Bach, Johann Sebastian : 5 Praludium und Fughetta BWV 899-902, 870a

Work Overview

Music ID : 2234
Instrumentation:Piano Solo 
Genre:prelude and fuga
Total Playing Time:19 min 30 sec
Copyright:Public Domain

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Author : Asayama, Natsuko

Last Updated: September 1, 2007
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Note: This article is automatically translated from the original Japanese text. The author of the original work did not supervise this translation.

Overview

The exact year of composition and the circumstances surrounding it are unclear. In a surviving manuscript in Berlin, BWV 870a is inscribed following BWV 899-902, and the New Bach Edition treats these five pieces as a single group. Some of these were revised and included in The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II, but it is possible that the entire set was originally conceived under the idea of some kind of tonal cycle. This is because the keys from C major to G major are arranged almost sequentially in this source. In any case, they are considered educational works. Each fugue is relatively small in scale but is accompanied by a cantabile prelude.

  • Prelude and Fughetta in D minor, BWV 899
    The fughetta features a subject not bound by four harmonies, which is effectively employed through counterpoint. Although called a "fughetta" due to its small scale, its content is a fine work comparable to a fugue.
  • Prelude and Fugue in E minor, BWV 900
    The fughetta has a highly ornamental and brilliant subject, but there is a theory that treats it as a spurious work.
  • Prelude and Fugue in F major, BWV 901
    The fugue was transposed, revised, and significantly expanded into A-flat major, and included as No. 17 (BWV 886) in The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II.
  • Prelude and Fughetta in G major, BWV 902
    The fughetta was revised and included in The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II. The prelude exists in two versions of different lengths: the shorter BWV 902/1a and the nearly twice as long BWV 902/1. However, the shorter 1a seems to fit the fughetta of BWV 902/2 better. In The Well-Tempered Clavier, an entirely new prelude was written for the revised fugue.
  • Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 870a
    An early version of No. 1 in C major from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II.

Movements (5)

Prelude und Fugetta BWV 899

Key: d-moll  Total Performance Time: 3 min 00 sec 

Prelude und Fuge BWV 900

Key: e-moll  Total Performance Time: 5 min 30 sec 

Prelude und Fuge BWV 901

Key: F-Dur  Total Performance Time: 2 min 30 sec 

Prelude und Fugetta BWV 902

Key: G-Dur  Total Performance Time: 5 min 30 sec 

Prelude und Fuge BWV 870a

Key: C-Dur  Total Performance Time: 3 min 00 sec 

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