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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. The use of this format is generally inspired by Johann Sebastian Bach's two books of preludes and fugues — The Well-Tempered Clavier — completed in 1722 and 1742 respectively. Bach, however, was not the first to compose such a set: Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer wrote a 20-key cycle in his 1702 work Ariadne musica.
A number of composers wrote sets of pieces covering all 24 major and/or minor keys. Many of these have been sets of 24 preludes and fugues, or 24 preludes.
The first movement may be alternatively titled, resulting in a Fantasy and Fugue, or a toccata and fugue, among others.
BWV 846 – PreludeandFugue in C major BWV 846a – Prelude in C major (alternative version of BWV 846, only Prelude) BWV 847 – PreludeandFugue in C minor...
The Eight Short PreludesandFugues (also Eight Little PreludesandFugues), BWV 553–560, are a collection of works for keyboard and pedal formerly attributed...
Spitfire PreludeandFugue is an orchestral composition by William Walton, arranged and extracted in 1942 from music he had written for the motion picture...
– PreludeandFugue in C major BWV 532 – PreludeandFugue in D major BWV 532a – Fugue in D major (alternative version of BWV 532) BWV 533 – Prelude and...
example, the PreludeandFugue in E-flat major can be indicated as "C. F. Peters Vol. III No. 1", or any of the variants ("Griepenkerl and Roitzsch Vol...
secular music, and his contributions to the development of the chorale preludeandfugue have earned him a place among the most important composers of the...
of preludesandfugues, five toccatas andfugues, and the Orgelbüchlein or "Little Organ Book", an unfinished collection of 46 short chorale preludes that...
Hallows: PreludeandFugue in C major; Fantasia andFugue in G minor (the Great); PreludeandFugue in G major; PreludeandFugue in F minor; Little Fugue in...
Germany, dating from 1714. The recording also includes the PreludesandFugues BWV 546 and 547, and the Canonic Variations on "Vom Himmel hoch", BWV 769a....
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