Das Wohltemperierte Klavier

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Das_Wohltemperierte_Klavier

GPTKB entity

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	musical composition
gptkbp:alternativeName	gptkb:The_Well-Tempered_Clavier Le Clavier bien tempéré
gptkbp:BWV_number	846–893
gptkbp:composer	gptkb:Johann_Sebastian_Bach
gptkbp:dedicatedTo	musical youth
gptkbp:firstBookBWV	846–869
gptkbp:firstBookComposed	1722
gptkbp:form	prelude and fugue pairs
gptkbp:genre	gptkb:keyboard
gptkbp:historicalSignificance	demonstrates equal temperament tuning
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Das Wohltemperierte Klavier
gptkbp:influenced	gptkb:Camille_Saint-Saëns gptkb:Claude_Debussy gptkb:Dmitri_Shostakovich gptkb:Felix_Mendelssohn gptkb:Johannes_Brahms gptkb:Ludwig_van_Beethoven gptkb:Robert_Schumann gptkb:Dmitry_Sitkovetsky gptkb:Béla_Bartók gptkb:César_Franck gptkb:Charles_Gounod gptkb:Paul_Hindemith gptkb:Frédéric_Chopin gptkb:Sergei_Rachmaninoff gptkb:Arnold_Schoenberg gptkb:Olivier_Messiaen gptkb:Dmitri_Kabalevsky gptkb:Ferruccio_Busoni gptkb:Max_Reger later keyboard music
gptkbp:influencedBy	Andreas Werckmeister
gptkbp:instrumentation	gptkb:keyboard
gptkbp:language	gptkb:German
gptkbp:manuscriptLocation	gptkb:Staatsbibliothek_zu_Berlin
gptkbp:notableArtist	gptkb:Edwin_Fischer gptkb:Sviatoslav_Richter gptkb:Angela_Hewitt gptkb:András_Schiff gptkb:Glenn_Gould
gptkbp:notableFor	use of all 24 major and minor keys
gptkbp:numberOfBooks	2
gptkbp:numberOfPreludesAndFuguesPerBook	24
gptkbp:publishedIn	1801
gptkbp:secondBookBWV	870–893
gptkbp:secondBookComposed	1742
gptkbp:structure	each book contains 24 preludes and fugues in all major and minor keys
gptkbp:totalPreludesAndFugues	48
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:J.S._Bach:_The_Well-Tempered_Clavier
gptkbp:bfsLayer	7