FugueFugue in G minor · BWV 861 · II

The G minor fugue from Book I of The Well-Tempered Clavier, written for four voices in common time. The subject opens alone in the alto after an eighth rest; the soprano answers late in the second bar, the tenor enters in the fifth and the bass in the sixth. After 34 bars the fugue closes under fermatas on a G major chord. This edition follows Franz Kroll's Bach-Gesellschaft edition of 1866.