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	The Well-Tempered Clavier
		The best known of Bach's clavier works is the famous set of preludes and fugues called The Well-Tempered Clavier.
		As in the organ fugues, each subject in Bach's clavier figures is a clearly defined musical personality, of which the entire fugue is to be a logical development and projection.
		In addition to demonstrating the possibility, with the then novel tempered tuning, of using all the keys, Bach had particular intentions to teach in Part I.
	www.bachcentral.com /wtc.html (413 words)

	Performing Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier: Leonhardt and his Students. By Bernard D. Sherman
		Harpsichordists are too quick to dismiss these sources (which could plausibly refer to Bach's last decade, when he might well have had access to "unfretted" clavichords suitable to his music).
		WTC is chock full of references to Baroque genres, from the old-fashioned stile antico to the up-to-date style galant.
		If every recording of the WTC is flawed in one way or another, the very process of recording may be part of the reason.
	homepages.kdsi.net /~sherman/WTC.htm (4551 words)

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	Well-Tempered Clavier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Well-Tempered Clavier (Das wohltemperierte Clavier, "Clavier" meaning "keyboard instrument") is a collection of solo keyboard music composed by Johann Sebastian Bach.
		Beethoven, who made remote modulations central to his music, was heavily influenced by the Well-Tempered Clavier, since performing it in concerts in his youth was part of his star attraction and reputation.
		Bach's title suggests that he had written for a (12-note) well tempered tuning system in which all keys sounded in tune (also known as "circular temperament").
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Well-Tempered_Clavier (2390 words)

	The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1
		These clavier instruments can be roughly categorised as clavichord, fortepiano and harpsichord.
		The WTC was finally published 51 years after the composer's death, which marked the culmination of the strenuous efforts made by his son and pupils.
		When the WTC I was to be performed in its entirety on a single instrument, there would have been nothing better than to choose a harpsichord which is equipped with several stops.
	www.music.qub.ac.uk /~tomita/essay/wtc1.html (3724 words)

	Bach Choir of Bethlehem
		This is what Bach was trying to show with his Well-Tempered Clavier sets—that you can play in any key and the music will still sound agreeable.
		Well, it's difficult to make generalizations which will apply to twenty-four pieces, but here are a few things.
		In WTC I, Bach writes for as few as 2 voices (in e minor) and as many as 5 (in c-sharp minor, b-flat minor.
	www.bach.org /bach101/instrumental/clavier.html (1560 words)

	Daniel-Ben Pienaar: virtuoso pianist playing Baroque music
		Book 2 of the Well-Tempered Clavier is in the musician's library happily bestowed canonic status yet not so readily familiar to a large audience; neither does it enjoy the cult status of the Goldberg Variations or Art of Fugue.
		And in the sentimental piety of the fugues in A-flat major and B major with their tender elisions of phrases something of the deep harmoniousness of some later fugues in Book Two of The Well-Tempered Clavier (1744) is prefigured.
		He can realise ideas, images and counterpoints that may well exist with equal force in the mind of a talented listener, the distinction being that the player carries the risk of personal failure.
	magnatune.com /artists/pienaar (3359 words)

	Bach's Well Tempered Clavier Book II, Part 1
		The music is quite difficult to perform well in that the adagio and allegro call for different aesthetics.
		Although not holding up too well to the other versions, Roberts is displaying more "feeling" than I originally thought and his sound is very good.
		For those not familiar, the WTC Book II consists of a series of 24 preludes and fugues in the different keys.
	www.bach-cantatas.com /NonVocal/Klavier-WTC2-Part1.htm (1429 words)

	Classical Net - Bach Cantatas - Listener's Guide
		The important consideration is that Bach's Well Tempered Clavier encompasses the full breadth and depth of the human condition.
		Johann Sebastian Bach's Well Tempered Clavier is one of the monumental musical achievements of Western Civilization.
		Mozart composed six Preludes& Fugues for String Trio from pieces of the Well Tempered Clavier, one of Bach's Trio Sonatas for Organ, and one of the fugues from the Art of Fugue.
	www.classical.net /music/comp.lst/works/bachjs/wtc (436 words)

	The Well Tempered Clavier, Introduction - ZeroGain Forum
		I guess the problem with WTC and Art is that they really are technical exercises, the former designed to exploit the possibilities of the tempered scale (of which Bach was a proponent) and the latter to exhaust the fugal possibilities on a given theme.
		The structure of the WTC is, itself, revealing: there is a prelude and fugue in every possible key (of course, not the enharmonic ones).
		As a matter of fact, the WTC is one of the least accessible entries to Bach’s keyboard works.
	www.zerogain.com /forum/showthread.php?t=13 (4766 words)

	Till Fellner Records Bach's Well Tempered Clavier Book I [by Donald Satz]
		I think his version of the Well Tempered Clavier is quite superb because it catches that heartfelt energetic feeling which, I think, is the hallmark of Bach.
		For potential buyers of a set of the Well Tempered Clavier who have no sets at all and also have no preference concerning instrumentation, the entire field is within the market.
		Another recording of the Well Tempered Clavier that has similarity with Fellner's is the Nonesuch from Edward Aldwell, but Aldwell's textures are much fuller.
	www.bach-cantatas.com /NonVocal/Klavier-WTC1-Fellner.htm (2903 words)

	Bach's Well Tempered Clavier Book 1 from a Legend
		The Fugue goes well with any depressing event you might have lived through or be thinking of; Landowska's authority can not be denied as her reading is majestic, slow, and inevitable.
		Prelude and Fugue in C sharp minor- The depth delivered by Landowska in the Prelude is very impressive and fully conveys the bitter/sweet nature of the music.
		I'll be reviewing her Goldberg Variations in the near future; those recording sessions were about 15 years earlier than for the WTC.
	www.bach-cantatas.com /NonVocal/Klavier-WTC1-Landowska.htm (1148 words)

	Sheet Music Plus - The Well-Tempered Clavier, Volume I
		A most impressive 220-page edition of the first volume of "The Well-Tempered Clavier," these 24 preludes and 24 fugues were painstakingly researched over a period of 10 years, using the most important original manuscript sources.
		The Well-Tempered Clavier, Volume Ii By Johann Sebastian Bach...
		Volume I of "The Well-Tempered Clavier" has been updated with a new "look" to match Volume II.
	www.sheetmusicplus.com /a/item.html?item=3662286&id=79590 (143 words)

	Classical CD Guide -- Top 10 Essential Piano Music CDs to Start Your Classical Music Collection
		The Well-Tempered Clavier sums up Bach's mastery of the keyboard in the same way as the B minor Mass sums up his mastery of singing.
		This three-disc collection offers both recordings of the Goldbergs as well as a revealing inteview in which Gould discusses his performances, all for the cost of one full-priced CD.
		Chopin specialized in the short piano piece, writing numerous études, scherzos, ballades, preludes, nocturnes, waltzes, and mazurkas as well as polonaises.
	www.classicalcdguide.com /genres/piano.htm (1692 words)

	Well-Tempered Clavier: analysis, scores, and digital sound
		Complete score of the WTC at the William and Gayle Cook Music Library at Indiana University School of Music.
		History of the WTC and primary sources for Book II by Dr. Yo Tomita at Queen's University, Belfast (Book I and Book II).
		Bach Digital: digitized images of original WTC documents from around the world.
	jan.ucc.nau.edu /~tas3/wtc/wtc.html (319 words)

	Bach Project - Well-Tempered Clavier
		One of the stated objectives of Bach in writing the Well-Tempered Clavier was to demonstrate the usefulness of a new tuning method that allowed keyboard instrumentalists to freely use any key and move freely from one key to another.
		But then the whole point of the Well-Tempered Clavier was to demonstrate that ALL keys, even C sharp Major, can be put to effective use on a keyboard instrument.
		The main theme is alternatively presented in its original form as well as in its mirror image.
	www.crystalmusic.com /taussig/wtk.html (2362 words)

	The Well Tempered Clavier
		Sviatoslav Richter played the piano for the Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1.
		Bach used a fast moving series of arpeggio passeges in the 3rd Prelude C sharp Major of the Well Tempered Clavier Book 1.
		At first, there is an intense and rich but complex resonance, right after that, beats start, which is not emerged for the purely tempered piano, but followed by attenuation of the sound of the chord the beats are going to calm themself down and instead well harmonized Major chord comes out.
	www.geocities.jp /imyfujita/wtcpage004.html (4855 words)

	La Folia -- A Well-Tempered Well-Tempered Clavier
		Her playing immediately strikes one with its "rightness" — a combination of faultless technique, extraordinary control of touch and dynamics (with very restrained use of the sustaining pedal), great elegance and phrasing that is profoundly poised and intelligent.
		She received her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Ottawa at the age of eighteen and later, in 1995, was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University.
		As Angela Hewitt aptly observes in her thorough and informative notes accompanying her recording of the work, "It is an inexhaustible treasure trove of the greatest possible music, combining contrapuntal wizardry with his immense gift for expressing human emotion in all its forms.
	www.lafolia.com /archive/mrichter/mrichter200004wtc.html (2029 words)

	Well-tempered Clavier - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Well-tempered Clavier
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Well-tempered+Clavier (61 words)

	A Musician's Cosmology: Das Wöhltemperierte Klavier, Vol. 1 (The Well Tempered Clavier)
		The WTC is complete and unique, and the collection of preludes and fugues which was published as “Volume two” is not related to it and would not have been called that by Bach.
		The WTC is one work with forty-eight movements, each unique in form, harmony, meter, which aims to fulfill the “doctrine of affections” by defining twenty-four distinct emotional states, and that’s just with the preludes.
		The old system of seven “real” tones and at least fourteen “altered” tones, all with different pitches, is here consolidated into twelve tones, all equally “real”, opening up a new world of expressive possibilities through chromatic harmony and the “circle of fifths”, which is presented here as fact before it was ever described as theory.
	www.motherbird.com /grubaugh.html (751 words)

	BBC - Classical Review - JS Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Pierre Hantai
		But the 'Well-Tempered Clavier' is light years from being a mere textbook for keyboard players, even if it has sometimes been treated as such: Bach didn't do 'mere'.
		The 'Well-Tempered Clavier': originally the first set of twenty-four Preludes and Fugues by Bach, one in each of the twelve major and twelve minor keys.
		The set represents an extraordinary combination of ideas; first a logical (but far trickier) extension to the studies of counterpoint Bach had written for his children and students in his two-part Inventions and three-part Fantasias...now here's the fugue in all its intellectual complexity, plus the musical and technical brilliance of the preludes.
	www.bbc.co.uk /music/classical/reviews/bachclav_hantai.shtml (626 words)

	Bach Preludes & Fugues from the Well-Tempered Clavier
		Bach Preludes and Fugues from the Well-Tempered Clavier
		It is not only a delight listening to the performance of a work so coveted by guitarists, but one is also amazed at the extensive polyphonic horizon to be covered upon adapting for our instrument a work of such contrapuntal magnitude as The Well-Tempered Clavier by Johann Sebastian Bach.
		A musical transcription needs to be justified by one or more valid reasons to establish a favorable balance between what the transcribed work stands to gain and what it stands to lose from the inevitable modifications which will change the course of its life as a result of the transcription.
	www.orphee.com /solos/bach.html (353 words)

	MS1021 - J.S.BACH Well-Tempered Clavier - David Korevaar
		These pieces are arranged exactly as his Well-Tempered Clavier Book I of 20 years earlier (that is, a Prelude and Fugue in each major and minor key, moving upwards by half step from C major to B minor) and have thus come to be known as the Well-Tempered Clavier Book II.
		He has participated in the commissioning and premiering of a number of new works, as well as the performance and recording of works by American composers including Rochberg, Copland, Rorem, Riegger, Stephen Jaffe, Scott Eyerly, Libby Larson and Lowell Liebermann.
		Honors and awards include top prizes in the University of Maryland William Kapell International Piano Competition and from the Peabody-Mason Music Foundation, as well as a special prize for his performance of French music awarded by the Robert Casadesus Competition.
	www.musiciansshowcase.com /Korevaar2/korevaar2.html (374 words)

	American Music Teacher: Bach's Well-tempered Clavier:The 48 Preludes and Fugues. - book review
		This is not an easy read, nor is it addressed to the novice musician who knows little about points of musical debate during the baroque era.
		Ledbetter is a specialist in early music, a harpsichordist, historian and composer, with other writings including Harpsichord and Lute Music in 17th-Century France (Macmillan, 1987) and Continuo Playing According to Handel (Oxford University Press, 1990).
		The first section of the book takes as its springboard Bach's 1722 fair copy title-page to Volume One, which lays out the work's contents, intended audience and purpose in the typically thorough manner of the day.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2493/is_6_52/ai_102521650 (567 words)

	Index of Analyzed Fugues
		counts beginning his composition of the Well-Tempered Clavier,
		by Frederick, as well as the philosophical assumptions of
		as the gm fugue of WTC Book I. An analogue is suggested of the Jewish-
	jan.ucc.nau.edu /~tas3/wtc (1188 words)

	Classical Net - J.S. Bach - Well-Tempered Clavier Performances
		The following articles concerning perormances of the Well-Tempered Clavier were posted to the Moderated Classical Music List from 1999 to 2001.
		Use of text, images, or any other copyrightable material contained in these pages, without the written permission of the copyright holder, except as specified in the Copyright Notice, is strictly prohibited.
		These articles have been edited by the author for use here.
	www.classical.net /music/comp.lst/articles/bachjs/keyboard/wtc (134 words)

	Fugues of the Well-Tempered Clavier
		Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier is one of the treasures of western music.
		This is a study of the 48 fugues, which we liken to life and learning in many disciplines.
		Each of its two volumes contains 24 preludes alternating with 24 fugues--a pair in each key.
	www.cfkeep.org /html/snapshot.php?id=5480064 (557 words)

	: Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier - Køb Musik: Totaltiorden.dk
		He was also very well known in Russia and Europe for his performances of Bach.
		For instance, the second prelude in WTC I goes faster than I've ever heard it and it is all the more exciting as a result.
		In fact, as an old pianist who has played the WTC at the keyboard for nigh on sixty years, I continue to have a hard time listening to WTC on the harpsichord.
	www.totaltiorden.dk /shop/cd_details.php/B000026OHNmusic (2070 words)

	Das Wohl Temperierte Clavier/The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Preludes & Fugues 18-24, Prelude in G major BWV 902 [FL 2 3017] - Analekta
		With The Well-Tempered Clavier, Bach continues and culminates a long tradition which assigns many works to any one of the keyboard instruments in use during the Baroque era, (harpsichord, organ or even clavichord) as can be seen on the title pages of several collections (by Cabezon, Frescobaldi, or Froberger, for example).
		The translations long in use for the twofold collection of Preludes and Fugues by J.S. Bach, called in German Das Wohl Temperierte Clavier are incorrect in English (The Well-Tempered Clavichord) as well as in French (Le Clavecin bien tempéré).
		The organ has always been justifiably considered the ideal instrument to convey polyphony most faithfully.
	www.analekta.com /site/cat.e/fl_2_3017.html (242 words)

	Amazon.com: Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier 1 & 2: Music: Johann Sebastian Bach,Rosalyn Tureck
		I also have piano interpretations of the Well Tempered Clavier by Edwin Fischer, Glen Gould, Andras Schiff and Jeno Jando.
		The Well-Tempered Clavier - Book 1: Prelude& Fugue (a 3 voci), BWV 848 In C Sharp Major : Praeludium III
		Amazon.com: Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier 1 & 2: Music: Johann Sebastian Bach,Rosalyn Tureck
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000031X83?v=glance (1999 words)

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