Prelude in E minorBWV 941
Johann Sebastian Bach
Difficulty 4
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Variation 1BWV 988
- Difficulty 5
- G major
- 2 min
- 32 measures
The first variation of Bach's Goldberg Variations, BWV 988, marked for one manual. Over the bass of the Aria, the hands move in two-part writing in 3/4, in two halves of sixteen bars, each repeated. This edition follows the first print, published in Nuremberg by Balthasar Schmid in 1741 or 1742.
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