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Fuga I a 3 VociFugue in C major · BWV 870 · II

Johann Sebastian Bach

  • Difficulty 7
  • C major
  • 1 min
  • 83 measures

The C major fugue that opens Book II of The Well-Tempered Clavier. Three voices take up a short, lively subject in 2/4, and running sixteenth notes carry the music through 83 bars to a full C major chord. This edition follows Franz Kroll's Peters edition, with his fingering.

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