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FugueFugue in E major · BWV 854 · II

Difficulty 6
E major
1 min
29 measures

The E major 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 second bar and the bass enters at the end of the third. Running sixteenths pass between the voices, and after 29 bars the fugue closes under fermatas on an E major chord. This edition follows Franz Kroll's Bach-Gesellschaft edition of 1866.

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