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FugueFugue in F minor · BWV 881 · II

Difficulty 7
F minor
2 min
86 measures

The F minor fugue from Book II of The Well-Tempered Clavier, written for three voices in 2/4 time. After an eighth-note upbeat the subject opens alone in the upper voice with three repeated F's; the middle voice enters in the fourth bar and the bass in the eleventh. After 85 bars it closes under fermatas on bare F's. This edition follows Franz Kroll's Peters edition and keeps his fingering.

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