The Well-Tempered Clavier

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/The_Well-Tempered_Clavier
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Statements (51)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf musical composition
gptkbp:composer gptkb:Johann_Sebastian_Bach
gptkbp:dedicatedTo musical youth and lovers of the art
gptkbp:firstBookBWV gptkb:BWV_846–869
gptkbp:firstBookComposed 1722
gptkbp:firstBookManuscriptLocation gptkb:Staatsbibliothek_zu_Berlin
gptkbp:form prelude and fugue pairs
gptkbp:genre gptkb:keyboard
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label The Well-Tempered Clavier
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Western_classical_music
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Claude_Debussy
gptkb:Dmitri_Shostakovich
gptkb:Felix_Mendelssohn
gptkb:Johannes_Brahms
gptkb:Ludwig_van_Beethoven
gptkb:Maurice_Ravel
gptkb:Robert_Schumann
gptkb:Sergei_Prokofiev
gptkb:Alban_Berg
gptkb:Béla_Bartók
gptkb:César_Franck
gptkb:Paul_Hindemith
gptkb:Frédéric_Chopin
gptkb:Sergei_Rachmaninoff
gptkb:Arnold_Schoenberg
gptkb:Olivier_Messiaen
gptkb:Domenico_Scarlatti
gptkb:Dmitri_Kabalevsky
gptkb:Anton_Webern
gptkb:Charles-Valentin_Alkan
gptkb:Ferruccio_Busoni
gptkbp:instrumentation gptkb:keyboard
gptkbp:keyCoverage all 24 major and minor keys
gptkbp:notableFor systematic exploration of all keys
gptkbp:notableRecording gptkb:Sviatoslav_Richter
gptkb:Angela_Hewitt
gptkb:András_Schiff
gptkb:Glenn_Gould
gptkbp:notableRelease gptkb:Henle_Edition
gptkb:Peters_Edition
gptkbp:numberOfBooks 2
gptkbp:numberOfPreludesAndFuguesPerBook 24
gptkbp:originalLanguage gptkb:Das_wohltemperierte_Klavier
gptkbp:period Baroque
gptkbp:purpose demonstrate well-tempered tuning
gptkbp:secondBookBWV gptkb:BWV_870–893
gptkbp:secondBookComposed 1742
gptkbp:secondBookManuscriptLocation various sources
gptkbp:totalPreludesAndFugues 48
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Johann_Sebastian_Bach
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4