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Fuga a 4Fugue in C minor · BWV 871 · II

Johann Sebastian Bach

  • Difficulty 5
  • C minor
  • 2 min
  • 28 measures

The C minor fugue from Book II of The Well-Tempered Clavier. Four voices take up a short subject in common time, entering one by one; the lower staff is silent for the first three bars. After only 28 bars it closes on a C major chord. This edition follows Franz Kroll's Bach-Gesellschaft edition of 1866.

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