Fugue No. 1 in C major

The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, No. 1

Johann Sebastian Bach

Key: C major
Time: 4/4
Level: 8
Bars: 27

Opening the practice room…

The original engraving

Fugue No. 1 in C major, original edition, page 42, bars 1–3 — Page 42 · bars 1–3

Fugue No. 1 in C major, original edition, page 42, bars 4–6 — Page 42 · bars 4–6

Fugue No. 1 in C major, original edition, page 42, bars 7–9 — Page 42 · bars 7–9

Fugue No. 1 in C major, original edition, page 43, bars 10–12 — Page 43 · bars 10–12

Fugue No. 1 in C major, original edition, page 43, bars 13–15 — Page 43 · bars 13–15

Fugue No. 1 in C major, original edition, page 43, bars 16–18 — Page 43 · bars 16–18

Fugue No. 1 in C major, original edition, page 43, bars 19–21 — Page 43 · bars 19–21

Fugue No. 1 in C major, original edition, page 43, bars 22–24 — Page 43 · bars 22–24

Fugue No. 1 in C major, original edition, page 43, bars 25–27 — Page 43 · bars 25–27

Where this comes from

Read from: Bach-Gesellschaft Ausgabe Jg. XIV (Clavierwerke Bd. 3), Breitkopf & Haertel, Leipzig, c.1866, ed. Franz Kroll

How: mutopia-4 (Public Domain (Mutopia; typeset by Andreas Scherer)), checked against the scan; pdmx-719631 (cc-zero (PDMX/MuseScore, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)), checked against the scan

Free to share: Johann Sebastian Bach d. 1750; first published 1801

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