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Variation 4BWV 988

Johann Sebastian Bach

  • Difficulty 4
  • G major
  • 1 min
  • 34 measures

The fourth variation of Bach's Goldberg Variations, BWV 988, marked for one manual. Four parts, two in each hand, move in short bars of 3/8, in two halves of sixteen bars, each repeated with first and second endings. This edition follows the first print, published in Nuremberg by Balthasar Schmid in 1741 or 1742.

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