Description: Alfred's Masterwork Edition of Volume II of Bach's essential masterpiece The Well-Tempered Clavier contains 30 pages of extensive research and insight into Baroque music. Painstakingly compared with the most important autograph and manuscript sources, this comprehensive edition includes thorough analysis of written and improvised ornamentation, a discussion of period keyboard instruments, insight into pedaling, touch, tempo and rhythm issues, as well as a discussion of preludes and fugues. Edited by Baroque scholar Judith Schneider, with expert fingering suggestions by Stuttgart Professor Maria Sofianska, Volume 2 includes: Prelude and Fugue in C Major BWV 870 Prelude and Fugue in C Minor BWV 871 Prelude and Fugue in C# Major BWV 872 Prelude and Fugue in C# Minor BWV 873 Prelude and Fugue in D Major BWV 874 Prelude and Fugue in D Minor BWV 875 Prelude and Fugue in E flat Major BWV 876 Prelude and Fugue in D# Minor BWV 877 Prelude and Fugue in E Major BWV 878 Prelude and Fugue in E Minor BWV 879 Prelude and Fugue in F Major BWV 880 Prelude and Fugue in F Minor BWV 881 Prelude and Fugue in F# Major BWV 882 Prelude and Fugue in F# Minor BWV 883 Prelude and Fugue in G Major BWV 884 Prelude and Fugue in G Minor BWV 885 Prelude and Fugue in A flat Major BWV 886 Prelude and Fugue in G# Minor BWV 887 Prelude and Fugue in A Major BWV 888 Prelude and Fugue in A Minor BWV 889 Prelude and Fugue in B flat Major BWV 890 Prelude and Fugue in B flat Minor BWV 891 Prelude and Fugue in B Major BWV 892 Prelude and Fugue in B Minor BWV 893
