Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Bach's_Well-Tempered_Clavier

GPTKB entity

Statements (65)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	musical composition
gptkbp:alternativeName	gptkb:Das_wohltemperierte_Klavier
gptkbp:Book_I_catalogueNumber	gptkb:BWV_846–869
gptkbp:Book_II_catalogueNumber	gptkb:BWV_870–893
gptkbp:catalogueNumber	gptkb:BWV_846–893
gptkbp:composer	gptkb:Johann_Sebastian_Bach
gptkbp:consistsOf	gptkb:Book_I gptkb:Book_II
gptkbp:dedicatedTo	for the profit and use of musical youth desirous of learning
gptkbp:firstBookComposed	1722
gptkbp:firstPublished	1801
gptkbp:form	prelude and fugue pairs
gptkbp:genre	gptkb:keyboard
gptkbp:historicalSignificance	demonstrated well-tempered tuning
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier
gptkbp:influenced	gptkb:Claude_Debussy gptkb:Dmitri_Shostakovich gptkb:Felix_Mendelssohn gptkb:Johannes_Brahms gptkb:Ludwig_van_Beethoven gptkb:Robert_Schumann gptkb:Frédéric_Chopin gptkb:Sergei_Rachmaninoff many other composers
gptkbp:instrument	harpsichord clavichord
gptkbp:keyStructure	all 24 major and minor keys
gptkbp:language	gptkb:German
gptkbp:manuscriptLocation	gptkb:Staatsbibliothek_zu_Berlin
gptkbp:notableFor	influence on Western music use of all keys
gptkbp:notableRecording	gptkb:Scott_Ross gptkb:Gustav_Leonhardt gptkb:Masaaki_Suzuki gptkb:Edwin_Fischer gptkb:Sviatoslav_Richter gptkb:Tatiana_Nikolayeva gptkb:Daniel_Barenboim gptkb:Trevor_Pinnock gptkb:Friedrich_Gulda gptkb:Angela_Hewitt gptkb:András_Schiff gptkb:Keith_Jarrett gptkb:Ralph_Kirkpatrick gptkb:Pierre_Hantaï gptkb:Richard_Egarr gptkb:Rosalyn_Tureck gptkb:Ton_Koopman gptkb:Murray_Perahia gptkb:Samuil_Feinberg gptkb:Glenn_Gould gptkb:Christophe_Rousset gptkb:Helmut_Walcha gptkb:Bob_van_Asperen gptkb:Evgeny_Koroliov
gptkbp:numberOfBooks	2
gptkbp:numberOfPreludesAndFuguesPerBook	24
gptkbp:performedBy	pianists organists harpsichordists
gptkbp:secondBookComposed	1742
gptkbp:studiedBy	music students worldwide
gptkbp:totalPreludesAndFugues	48
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:The_Swingle_Singers
gptkbp:bfsLayer	6