The rising chromatic pattern continues until every key has been represented, finishing with a B minor fugue. The first pair is in C major, the second in C minor, the third in C ♯ major, the fourth in C ♯ minor, and so on. 17 in A ♭ major from the second part of Das Wohltemperierte ClavierĮach set contains twenty-four pairs of prelude and fugue. Ĭomposition history Bach's autograph of the 4th Fugue of Book 1 Bach's autograph of Fugue No.
The collection is generally regarded as one of the most important works in the history of classical music. Modern editions usually refer to both parts as The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 (WTC 1) and The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2 (WTC 2), respectively. Some 20 years later, Bach compiled a second book of the same kind (24 pairs of preludes and fugues), which became known as The Well-Tempered Clavier, Part Two (in German: Zweyter Theil, modern spelling: Zweiter Teil). Bach gave the title Das Wohltemperirte Clavier to a book of preludes and fugues in all 24 keys, major and minor, dated 1722, composed "for the profit and use of musical youth desirous of learning, and especially for the pastime of those already skilled in this study". The modern German spelling for the collection is Das wohltemperierte Klavier (WTK German pronunciation: ). In the composer's time, clavier referred to a variety of stringed keyboard instruments, most typically the harpsichord or clavichord, but excluding the organ, which is not a stringed keyboard. The Well-Tempered Clavier, BWV 846–893, consists of two sets of preludes and fugues in all 24 major and minor keys for keyboard by Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach Title page of Das Wohltemperierte Clavier, Book 1 (autograph)
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