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FugueFugue in D-sharp minor · BWV 853 · II

Johann Sebastian Bach

  • Difficulty 5
  • D-sharp minor
  • 6 min
  • 87 measures

The D-sharp minor fugue from Book I of The Well-Tempered Clavier, written for three voices in common time. The subject opens alone in the middle voice, the upper voice answers in the third bar and the bass enters in the eighth. After 87 bars the fugue closes under fermatas on a D-sharp major chord. This edition follows Franz Kroll's Bach-Gesellschaft edition of 1866.

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