FugueFugue in C-sharp minor · BWV 849 · II

The C-sharp minor fugue from Book I of The Well-Tempered Clavier, written for five voices in alla breve time. Its slow subject of four notes, C-sharp, B-sharp, E and D-sharp, enters first in the lowest voice, and each higher voice follows in turn until the top one arrives in bar 14. After 115 bars the fugue closes under fermatas on a C-sharp major chord. This edition follows Franz Kroll's Bach-Gesellschaft edition of 1866.