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Wohltemperierte Klavier, 1. T,Das wohltemperirte Clavier. Erster Teil = (Le clavecin bien tempéré) / von Joh. Seb. Bach kritisch revidiert ... von Heinrich Germer

Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750

111 p. of music 29 cm. + 1 suppl. (10 p.)

Akademische Neuausg

Suppl. includes foreword and performance notes in German

The Well-Tempered Clavier (German: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier) is a collection of solo keyboard music composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. He gave the title to a book of preludes and fugues in all 24 major and minor keys, 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." Bach later compiled a second book of the same kind, dated 1742, with the title Twenty-four Preludes and Fugues. The two works are now considered to make up a single work, The Well-Tempered Clavier, or "the 48", and are referred to as The Well-Tempered Clavier Book I and The Well-Tempered Clavier Book II respectively. This collection is generally regarded as being among the most influential works in the history of Western classical music.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Well-Tempered_Clavier


This volume was published by Henry Charles Litolff (1818 -  1891), a piano virtuoso, composer of Romantic music and music publisher. He became a prolific composer, although he is now known mainly as the founder of the Litolff Edition of classical and modern music.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Litolff

Canons, fugues, etc. (Harpsichord)

Harpsichord music

M22.B1184 W57 v.1

M22.B1184 W57 v.1

Braunschweig : Henry Litolff's Verlag Boston : Arthur P. Schmidt, c1895

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