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Klavierbüchlein für Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (Bach's original spelling: Clavier-Büchlein vor Wilhelm Friedemann Bach) is a collection of keyboard
Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include various types of organ s as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic musical instrument....
 music compiled by the German
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
 Baroque
Baroque

In the the arts, the Baroque was a Western cultural Epoch , starting roughly at the beginning of the 17th century in Rome, Italy. It was exemplified by drama and grandeur in Baroque sculpture, Baroque painting, literature, Baroque dance, and Baroque music....
 composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
 Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and organ whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque music period and brought it to its ultimate maturity....
 for his eldest son Wilhelm Friedemann
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach , the second child and eldest son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach, was a German composer and performer....
. It is frequently referred to simply as Klavierbüchlein für Wilhelm Friedemann.

Johann Sebastian began compiling the collection in 1720.






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Bach Clefguide
Klavierbüchlein für Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (Bach's original spelling: Clavier-Büchlein vor Wilhelm Friedemann Bach) is a collection of keyboard
Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include various types of organ s as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic musical instrument....
 music compiled by the German
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
 Baroque
Baroque

In the the arts, the Baroque was a Western cultural Epoch , starting roughly at the beginning of the 17th century in Rome, Italy. It was exemplified by drama and grandeur in Baroque sculpture, Baroque painting, literature, Baroque dance, and Baroque music....
 composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
 Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and organ whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque music period and brought it to its ultimate maturity....
 for his eldest son Wilhelm Friedemann
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach , the second child and eldest son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach, was a German composer and performer....
. It is frequently referred to simply as Klavierbüchlein für Wilhelm Friedemann.

Johann Sebastian began compiling the collection in 1720. Most of the pieces included are better known as parts of the Well-Tempered Clavier
Well-Tempered Clavier

The Well-Tempered Clavier , BWV 846?893, is a collection of solo keyboard music composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. He first gave the title to a book of prelude and fugues in all 24 major and minor key , dated 1722, composed "for the profit and use of musical youth desirous of learning, and especially for the pastime of those already...
 and the Inventions and Sinfonias. The authorship of most other works is debated: particularly the famous Little Preludes BWV
BWV

The Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis is the numbering system identifying compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach. The prefix BWV, followed by the work's number now is the shorthand identification for Bach's compositions....
 924–932 are sometimes attributed to Wilhelm Friedemann Bach.

Contents

Bach Ornamentguide
Bach Applicatio Autograph
The book begins with a preface
Preface

A preface is an introduction to a book written by the author of the book. An introductory essay written by a different person is a foreword and precedes an author's preface....
 that contains an explanation of clef
Clef

A clef is a musical notation used to indicate the pitch of written notes. Placed on one of the lines at the beginning of the staff , it indicates the name and pitch of the notes on that line....
s and a guide to playing ornaments
Ornament (music)

In music, ornaments are musical flourishes that are not necessary to carry the overall line of the melody , but serve instead to decorate or "ornament" that line....
. The pieces of the collection are arranged by complexity, beginning with the most simple works. Of these, Applicatio in C major BWV 994 and Prelude in G minor BWV 930 are particularly notable because they are the only surviving works that feature the fingering
Fingering

Fingering is the choice of which fingers and hand positions to use when playing certain instruments. For example, when fingering the saxophone, chords or melodies can often be played with a variety of different assignments of fingers to played keys....
 in Bach's own hand (the only other Bach piece with fingering marks is the C major Prelude BWV 870a, however, the marks are not in Bach's hand. They were probably added by Johann Caspar Vogler
Johann Caspar Vogler

Johann Caspar Vogler was a German pipe organ and composer taught by Johann Sebastian Bach....
, Bach's pupil and successor at Weimar
Weimar

Weimar is a city in Germany. It is located in the States of Germany of Thuringia , north of the Th?ringer Wald, east of Erfurt, and southwest of Halle, Saxony-Anhalt and Leipzig....
).

Here is a complete list of pieces, in order of appearance in the manuscript:
  • BWV 994, Applicatio in C major.
  • BWV 924, Prelude
    Prelude (music)

    A prelude is a short Musical piece of music, the form of which may vary from piece to piece. While, during the Baroque Age, for example, it may have served as an introduction to succeeding movements of a work that were usually longer and more complex, it may also have been a stand alone piece of work during the Romantic Era....
     in C major.
  • BWV 691, Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten (4), chorale prelude
    Chorale prelude

    In music, a chorale prelude is a short liturgical composition for organ using a chorale tune as its basis. It was a predominant style of the German Baroque music era and reached its culmination in the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, who wrote 46 examples of the form in his Orgelb?chlein....
     for organ
    Organ (music)

    The organ is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard played either Manual or Pedal clavier. The organ is one of the oldest musical instruments in the European classical music....
    .
  • BWV 926, Prelude in D minor.
  • BWV 753, Jesu, meine Freude (2), chorale prelude for organ (incomplete).
  • BWV 836, Allemande
    Allemande

    An allemande is one of the most popular instrumental dance forms in Baroque music, and a standard element of a suite. Originally, the allemande formed the first movement of the suite, before the courante, but, later, it was often preceded by an introductory movement, such as a Prelude ....
     in G minor (1). Possibly composed by Wilhelm Friedemann Bach.
  • BWV 837, Allemande in G minor (2). Possibly composed by Wilhelm Friedemann Bach.
  • BWV 927, Prelude in F major.
  • BWV 930, Prelude in G minor.
  • BWV 928, Prelude in F major.
  • BWV 841, Minuet
    Minuet

    A minuet, sometimes spelled menuet, is a social dance of France origin for two persons, usually in time signature. The word was adapted from Italian language minuetto and French language menuet, meaning small, pretty, delicate, a diminutive of menu, from the Latin minutus; menuetto is a word that occurs only on musi...
     in G major. Probably not by Johann Sebastian Bach. This piece was also included in the 1722 Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach
    Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach

    The title Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach refers to either of two manuscript notebooks that the Germany Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach presented to his second wife Anna Magdalena Bach....
    .
  • BWV 842, Minuet in G minor.
  • BWV 843, Minuet in G major.
  • BWV 846a, Praeludium 1 in C major. Alternative version of the prelude from Prelude and Fugue in C major from the first book of the Well-Tempered Clavier
    Well-Tempered Clavier

    The Well-Tempered Clavier , BWV 846?893, is a collection of solo keyboard music composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. He first gave the title to a book of prelude and fugues in all 24 major and minor key , dated 1722, composed "for the profit and use of musical youth desirous of learning, and especially for the pastime of those already...
    .
  • BWV 847/1, Praeludium 2 in C minor (Prelude in C minor from the first book of the Well-Tempered Clavier)
  • BWV 851/1, Praeludium 3 in D minor (Prelude in D minor from the first book of the Well-Tempered Clavier)
  • BWV 850/1, Praeludium 4 in D major (Prelude in D major from the from the first book of the Well-Tempered Clavier, incomplete)
  • BWV 855a, Praeludium 5 in E minor. Alternative version of the prelude from Prelude and Fugue in E minor from the first book of the Well-Tempered Clavier. This was later arranged for pianoforte by Alexander Siloti
    Alexander Siloti

    Alexander Ilyich Siloti was a Russian pianist, Conducting and composer. ...
     and transposed
    Transposition

    Transposition may refer to:Mathematics* Transposition , a permutation which exchanges two elements and keeps all others fixed* Transposition, producing the transpose of a matrix A''T, which is computed by swapping columns for rows in the matrix A''...
     into a Prelude in B minor
    Prelude in B minor (J. S. Bach, arranged Siloti)

    The Prelude in B minor is an arrangement for piano by Alexander Siloti of the Prelude in E minor BWV 855a by J. S. Bach from his Klavierb?chlein f?r Wilhelm Friedemann Bach....
    .
  • BWV 854/1, Praeludium 6 in E major (Prelude in E major from the first book of the Well-Tempered Clavier)
  • BWV 856/1, Praeludium 7 in F major (Prelude in F major from the first book of the Well-Tempered Clavier)
  • BWV 848/1, Praeludium [8] in C-sharp major (Prelude in C-sharp major from the first book of the Well-Tempered Clavier)
  • BWV 849/1, Praeludium [9] in C-sharp minor (Prelude in C-sharp minor from the first book of the Well-Tempered Clavier)
  • BWV 853/1, Praeludium [10] in E-flat minor (Prelude in E-flat minor from the first book of the Well-Tempered Clavier)
  • BWV 857/1, Praeludium [11] in F minor (Prelude in F minor from the first book of the Well-Tempered Clavier)
  • Piéce pour le Clavecin, harpsichord
    Harpsichord

    A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a musical keyboard. It produces sound by plucking a string when each Key is pressed....
     suite
    Suite

    In music, a suite is an ordered set of instrumental or orchestral pieces normally performed in a concert setting rather than as accompaniment; they may be extracts from an opera, ballet, or incidental music to a play or film , or they may be entirely original movements ....
     by J. C. Richter. Incomplete, only features two parts: Allemande
    Allemande

    An allemande is one of the most popular instrumental dance forms in Baroque music, and a standard element of a suite. Originally, the allemande formed the first movement of the suite, before the courante, but, later, it was often preceded by an introductory movement, such as a Prelude ....
     and Courante
    Courante

    The courante, corrente, coranto and corant are just some of the names given to a family of triple metre dances from the late Renaissance and the Baroque....
    .
  • BWV 924a, Prelude in C major (alternative version of BWV 924).
  • BWV 925, Prelude in D major.
  • BWV 932, Prelude in E minor.
  • BWV 931, Prelude in A minor.
  • Baß-Skizze in G minor. Not included in the BWV catalogue.
  • BWV 953, Fuga
    Fugue

    In music, a fugue is a type of counterpoint composition or technique of composition for a fixed number of melody, normally referred to as "voices"....
     a 3     in C major.
  • BWV 772, Praeambulum 1 in C Major (Invention No. 1)
  • BWV 775, Praeambulum 2 in D minor (Invention No. 4)
  • BWV 778, Praeambulum 3 in E minor (Invention No. 7)
  • BWV 779, Praeambulum 4 in F Major (Invention No. 8)
  • BWV 781, Praeambulum 5 in G Major (Invention No. 10)
  • BWV 784, Praeambulum 6 in A minor (Invention No. 13)
  • BWV 786, Praeambulum 7 in B minor (Invention No. 15)
  • BWV 785, Praeambulum 8 in Bb Major (Invention No. 14)
  • BWV 783, Praeambulum 9 in A Major (Invention No. 12)
  • BWV 782, Praeambulum 10 in G minor (Invention No. 11)
  • BWV 780, Praeambulum 11 in F minor (Invention No. 9)
  • BWV 777, Praeambulum 12 in E Major (Invention No. 6)
  • BWV 776, Praeambulum 13 in Eb Major (Invention No. 5)
  • BWV 774, Praeambulum 14 in D Major (Invention No. 3)
  • BWV 773, Praeambulum 15 in C minor (Invention No. 2)
  • BWV 824, Suite in A major by Georg Philipp Telemann
    Georg Philipp Telemann

    Georg Philipp Telemann was a German Baroque music composer, born in Magdeburg. Self-taught in music, he studied law at the University of Leipzig....
    . Three parts: Allemande, Courante and Gigue
    Gigue

    The gigue or giga is a lively baroque dance originating from the British jig. It was imported into France in the mid-17th century and usually appears at the end of a suite....
    .
  • Partia di Signore Steltzeln, harpsichord suite by Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel
    Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel

    Gottfried Heinrich St?lzel was a prolific German composer....
    . Four parts: Ouverture, Air
    AIR

    Air is the part of Earth's atmosphere that humans breath and as such Air .Air may also refer to:...
     Italien, Bourrée
    Bourrée

    This article is about various types of dance and music called "bourr?e".The 'bourr?e' is a dance of French origin common in Auvergne and Biscay in Spain in the 17th century....
    , Minuet.
  • BWV 787, Fantasia 1 in C Major (Sinfonia No. 1)
  • BWV 790, Fantasia 2 in D minor (Sinfonia No. 4)
  • BWV 793, Fantasia 3 in E minor (Sinfonia No. 7)
  • BWV 794, Fantasia 4 in F Major (Sinfonia No. 8)
  • BWV 796, Fantasia 5 in G Major (Sinfonia No. 10)
  • BWV 799, Fantasia 6 in A minor (Sinfonia No. 13)
  • BWV 801, Fantasia 7 in B minor (Sinfonia No. 15)
  • BWV 800, Fantasia 8 in Bb Major (Sinfonia No. 14)
  • BWV 798, Fantasia 9 in A Major (Sinfonia No. 12)
  • BWV 797, Fantasia 10 in G minor (Sinfonia No. 11)
  • BWV 795, Fantasia 11 in F minor (Sinfonia No. 9)
  • BWV 792, Fantasia 12 in E Major (Sinfonia No. 7)
  • BWV 791, Fantasia 13 in Eb Major (Sinfonia No. 5)
  • BWV 789, Fantasia 14 in D Major (Sinfonia No. 3)
  • BWV 788, Fantasia 15 in C minor (Sinfonia No. 2


See also

  • List of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach
    List of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach

    There are over 1000 known compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach. Listed here are about half of these in the order of the BWV catalog, including the spurious works in the BWV Anhang ....


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