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| | Bach, Mozart, and the 'Musical Midwife' Article by M. Rasmussen |
 | | Bach used this work to explore, in depth, the new musical possibilites of well-tempering, which could give these fixed-note instruments increased ability to play multi-voiced, or polyphonic music, as if they were different species of human voices singing together, with similar flexibility and irony. |
 | | He plays the clavier very skillfully and with power, reads at sight very well, andto put it in a nutshellhe plays chiefly The Well-Tempered Clavichord of Sebastian Bach, which Herr Neefe put into his hands. |
 | | To repeat, it was especially Beethoven's ability to play Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier magnificently, in a Vienna that Baron van Swieten had brought to love Bach, which opened all doors for him, and which drew him into the Baron's musical circle. |
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