The Well-Tempered Clavier

The Well-Tempered Clavier"His art was of an encyclopedic nature, drawing together and surmounting the techniques, the styles, and the general achievements of his own and earlier generations and leading to a new perspective." Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians. This informed assessment of the genius of Bach's works can be applied with greatest accuracy to The Well Tempered Clavier. This highly influential work is monumental in the history of Western music. It represents

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