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Prelude in C majorBWV 846

Johann Sebastian Bach

  • Difficulty 2
  • C major
  • 2 min
  • 35 measures

The prelude that opens Book I of The Well-Tempered Clavier. One broken-chord figure, played twice in every bar, carries a slow succession of harmonies over a long pedal on G to a close over C. Gounod later wrote his 'Ave Maria' above it. Edited from Bach's autograph of 1722.

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