The Prelude and Fugue in B-flat minor,

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891, is a keyboard composition by

Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his orchestral music such as the '' Brandenburg Concertos''; instrumental compositions such as the Cello Suites; keyboard wo ...

. It is the 22nd

prelude and fugue {{Unreferenced, date=June 2019, bot=noref (GreenC bot) The prelude and fugue is a musical form generally consisting of two movements in the same key for solo keyboard. In classical music, the combination of prelude and fugue is one with a long his ...

in the second book of ''

The Well-Tempered Clavier ''The Well-Tempered Clavier'', BWV 846–893, consists of two sets of preludes and fugues in all 24 major and minor keys for keyboard by Johann Sebastian Bach. In the composer's time, ''clavier'', meaning keyboard, referred to a variety of i ...

'' (WTC), a series of 48 preludes and fugues by the composer. It was composed in 1738.

Prelude

The prelude is in

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and has 83 measures. It is made up mainly of eighth notes, quarter notes, half notes and whole notes.

Fugue

The fugue is in time and has 101

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and four voices. It is made up mainly of eighth notes, half notes, dotted half notes, quarter notes, whole notes, and dotted whole notes.

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said it is one of his favourite fugues, along with F-sharp minor fugue, BWV 883, and E major fugue, BWV 878, also from the second book of WTC.

References

The Well-Tempered Clavier 1738 compositions Compositions in B-flat minor {{classical-composition-stub