Product Description
The Eight Short Preludes and Fugues (also Eight Little Preludes and Fugues), BWV553560, are a collection of works for keyboard and pedal formerly attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach. They are now believed to have been composed by one of Bach's pupils, possibly Johann Tobias Krebs or his son Johann Ludwig Krebs, or by the Bohemiancomposer Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer.
Prelude and Fugue in D minor (BWV 554)
- The compact prelude has an ABA structure, where the A section is dominated by the middle concertanteB segment. Both the prelude and fugue are reminiscent of the first and last lines of the Lutheran chorale Jesu, meine Freude.
Prelude and Fugue in E minor (BWV 555)
- The prelude of BWV 555 is in the durezza style of suspended dissonances, typified by the ricercars of Frescobaldi; the model is adapted from the traditions of organ versets in Southern Germany, rather than string trio sonatas. Peter Williams considers that the fugue is probably the best in the collection "with stretto, inversus, and a counterpoint typical of earlier treatments of the descending chromatic fourth."
About the arranger
Fillipe Mendel has been immersed in music since he was a child. Coming from a Portuguese family, he believes that music can and should tell a story and, as such, he is the composer and arranger of over hundreds of religious, classical and contemporary songs. Speaking of stories, he also often writes romantic suspense novels. He currently lives in Brazil, in the state of São Paulo.
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