Well-Tempered Clavier Book I BWV 846-869

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Well-Tempered Clavier Book I, BWV 846-869

German Title	Das Wohltemeprierte Clavier
English Title	The Well-Tempered-Clavier, Book I / Part 1 (WTC 1)
French Title	Le Clavier bien tempéré, Premier livre
Spanish Title
Works	Preludes & Fugues (24), BWV 846-869 Prelude & Fugue No. 1 in C major, BWV 846 Prelude & Fugue No. 2 in C minor, BWV 847 Prelude & Fugue No. 3 in C sharp major, BWV 848 Prelude & Fugue No. 4 in C sharp minor, BWV 849 Prelude & Fugue No. 5 in D major, BWV 850 Prelude & Fugue No. 6 in D minor, BWV 851 Prelude & Fugue No. 7 in E flat major, BWV 852 Prelude & Fugue No. 8 in E flat minor, BWV 853 Prelude & Fugue No. 9 in E major, BWV 854 Prelude & Fugue No. 10 in E minor, BWV 855 Prelude & Fugue No. 11 in F major, BWV 856 Prelude & Fugue No. 12 in F minor, BWV 857 Prelude & Fugue No. 13 in F sharp major, BWV 858 Prelude & Fugue No. 14 in F sharp minor, BWV 859 Prelude & Fugue No. 15 in G major, BWV 860 Prelude & Fugue No. 16 in G minor, BWV 861 Prelude & Fugue No. 17 in A flat major, BWV 862 Prelude & Fugue No. 18 in G sharp minor, BWV 863 Prelude & Fugue No. 19 in A major, BWV 864 Prelude & Fugue No. 20 in A minor, BWV 865 Prelude & Fugue No. 21 in B flat major, BWV 866 Prelude & Fugue No. 22 in B flat minor, BWV 867 Prelude & Fugue No. 23 in B major, BWV 868 Prelude & Fugue No. 24 in B minor, BWV 869
Scoring	Harpsichord
	Score
References	Composed	BGA	NBA	BC	First Published
BWV 846-869	Before 1722	XIV	V/6.1	L80-103	Bonn, 1801
Music	Music Examples

Contents
Recordings \| Reviews \| Discussions \| Articles \| Links
Recordings
Complete Recordings - Until 1950 Complete Recordings - 1951-1960 Complete Recordings - 1961-1970 Complete Recordings - 1971-1980 Complete Recordings - 1981-1990 Complete Recordings - 1991-2000 Complete Recordings - From 2001
Reviews
Reviews of Well-Tempered Clavier Book I: Comparative Review: Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier Book 1: Part 1 \| Part 2 \| Part 3 \| Part 4 \| Part 5 \| Part 6 Review: Bach's Well Tempered Clavier from Barenboim Review: Well-Tempered Clavier Book I - played by Daniel Barenboim Review: Till Fellner Records Bach's Well Tempered Clavier Book I Review: Fischer’s WTC I on Naxos Review: Bach's Well Tempered Clavier Book 1 from Pierre Hantai Review: Bach’s WTC - One More Time Review: Well Tempered Clavier Book 1 from Christiane Jaccottet Review: Well Tempered Clavier Book 1 from Kirkpatrick Review: Ton Koopman’s Well Tempered Clavier Book 1 Review: Bach’s Well Temepred Clavier Book 1 from a Legend Review: Well Tempered Clavier Book 1 from Robert Levin Review: Bach & Shostakovich Preludes & Fugues from Olli Mustonen Review: Edward Parmentier Plays Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier Review: Richter’s WTC Book 1 (3 Parts) Review: Schepkin’s Well Tempered Clavier, Book I (10 Parts) Review: WTC Book I - Tureck (1975-1976) Reviews of Well-Tempered Clavier Books I & II: Review: A Terrific Trio of Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier Review: Review: WTC By Ottavio Dantone Review: Samuel Feinberg’s Well Tempered Clavier (3 Parts) Review: Hewitt's recordings of the Well Tempered Clavier Review: Nikolayeva’s WTC Review: WTC Ruzickova
Discussions
Discussions of Well-Tempered Clavier Book I: General Discussions: Part 1 Discussions: WTC 1 BWV 846-869 - played by Till Fellner
Articles
Article: Das Wohltemperirte Clavier - Pitch, Tuning and Temperament Design [C. Francis]
Article: The Hänfling/Bümler Temperament - A Trigger for Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier? [T. Braatz] Article: Implication of Bach’s Title "Well Tempered Clavier" [P. Metcalf]
Links
Title	Description	Author/Webmaster
Well-Tempered Clavier	Composition history, Later significance and influence, What tuning did Bach intend?, References, External links	Wikipedia
The Well-Tempered Clavier (24), collection of preludes & fugues, Book I, BWV 846-869	Composition Description	Robert Cummings / AMG
BACH - Well Tempered Clavier - complete recordings of both books	Recording list	Ron / University at Albany
J.S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier	MIDI Files	S.D. Rodian
Debby Lyttle's Home Page	A couple of short essays on the Well Tempered Clavier and Brandenburg Concertos	Debby Lyttle
Johann Sebastian Bach: the Well Tempered Tuning is Unequal	Technical essay, which instructs the reader about the correct harpsichord tuning for the WTC	Dr. Herbert A. Kellner
The Variations Project	The full score of the WTC Book 1	Indiana University School of Music
Bach, Well-tempered Clavier Bk 1, Part 1	Preludes and Fugues 1-13 from Book 1 of Bach's WTC. MP3.com	John L. Grant
Bach, Well-tempered Clavier, Bk 1, Part 2	Preludes & fugues 14-24 from Book 1 of Bach's WTC. MP3.com	John L. Grant
The Well Tempered Clavier BWV 846-869	Commentary	Dr. Carol Traupman-Carr / Bach 101
Music of Sacred Temperament	A Method for the WTC by J.S. Bach 2001 - A fiction	Iori Fujita
The Well Tempered Clavier	A Comment for the WTC - by Count Hermann Carl von Keyserlingk in 1744	Iori Fujita
Well-Tempered Clavier: analysis, scores, and digital sound	Interactive analyses of Bach fugues with complete scores synchronized with digital sound and hyperlinked commentary.	Tim Smith & and David Korevaar
Cracking the "Bach" Code - Breakthrough WTC Recording	Peter Watchorn's WTC 1 reviewed in American Record Guide by Peter Catalano	Catalano
Bach's Art of Temperament	Article	Bradley Lehman
Bach's Extraordinary Temperament: Our Rosetta Stone	Article	Bradley Lehman
Johann Sebastian Bach's Tuning	Website	Bradley Lehman
Temperament derived from the 1722 title page	Article (1999) [German]	Andreas Sparschuh
The “Bach Temperament”:	Article	Kenneth Mobbs & Alexander Mackenzie
How tuned Bach?:	Discussion group	YahooGroups
J.S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier - In-depth Analysis and Interpretation	Full text of the 1951 book	Siglind Bruhn
J.S. Bach: Das Wohltemeprierte Clavier	Animated visualizations of the music [shockwave required]	Tim Smith / Northern Arizona University
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Prepared by Aryeh Oron (December 2006 - May 2008) Thanks to contributors: Thomas Braatz (December 2006), Bradley Lehman (December 2006)
Well Tempered Clavier Book I, BWV 846-869: Details Recordings: Until 1950 \| 1951-1960 \| 1961-1970 \| 1971-1980 \| 1981-1990 \| 1991-2000 \| From 2001 Comparative Review: Part 1 \| Part 2 \| Part 3 \| Part 4 \| Part 5 \| Part 6 Reviews of Individual Recordings: WTC I - D. Barenboim [D. Satz] \| WTC I - D. Barenboim [P. Bright] \| WTC I - L. Beausejouir & A. Vieru \| WTC I - T. Fellner \| WTC I - E. Fischer \| WTC I - M. Horszowski \| WTC I - C. Jaccottet \| WTC I - R. Kirkpatrick \| WTC I - T. Koopman \| WTC I - W. Landowska \| WTC I - R. Levin \| WTC I - O. Mustonen \| WTC I - E. Parmentier \| WTC I - S. Richter \| WTC I - S. Schepkin General Discussions: Part 1 Discussions of Individual Recordings: WTC I - T. Fellner Well Tempered Clavier Book II, BWV 870-893: Details Recordings: Until 1950 \| 1951-1960 \| 1961-1970 \| 1971-1980 \| 1981-1990 \| 1991-2000 \| From 2001 Comparative Review: Part 1 \| Part 2 \| Part 3 \| Part 4 \| Part 5 \| Part 6 \| Part 7 \| Part 8 \| Part 9 Reviews of Individual Recordings: WTC II - D. Barenboim [P. Bright] \| WTC II - G. Cooper \| WTC II - F. Gulda \| WTC II - A. Hewitt \| WTC II - R. Kirkpatrick \| WTC II - J. Middleton General Discussions: Part 1 Well Tempered Clavier Books I&II, BWV 846-893: Reviews of Individual Recordings: WTC I&II - B.v. Asperen, S. Ross & G. Wilson \| WTC I&II - E. Crochet \| WTC I&II - O. Dantone \| WTC I&II - S. Feinberg \| WTC I&II - A. Hewitt \| WTC II&II - T. Nikolayeva \| WTC II&II - L. Thiry [N. Halliday] \| WTC I&II - Z. Ruzickova

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