The Well-Tempered Clavier by Johann Sebastian Bach is a collection of 48 prelude and fugues written in every key – major and minor – that marks the departure from the era of musica antica to that of modern music.
With this work, the author intends to offer a tool for an analytical, formal, and syntactic approach without the desire of reaching beyond the essential. In this way, I remain within the limits of a possible and necessary objectivity, to summarize and clarify Bach’s great work to those who approach it, be it listener or a student of piano, organ, harpsichord, or composition.
Everyone, then, can start here in order to further deepen the analysis to their own liking and according to their own needs. They are free to see, on the basis of their own sensitivity and culture, all the aspects of that work that they will want.
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