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Invention No. 3 in D majorBWV 774

Johann Sebastian Bach

  • Difficulty 4
  • D major
  • 1 min
  • 60 measures

The third of Bach's fifteen two-part Inventions, written out fair in 1723. In 3/8, a D major subject of eighths and running sixteenths, decorated with mordents and turns, passes from one hand to the other through related keys, and the opening returns in the last part before the close in D. Edited from the Bach-Gesellschaft edition of 1853.

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