Summary: "Das Wohltemperierte Klavier (Book I, nos 1-12)" Composed about 20 years apart, the two sets of 24 preludes and Fugues that constitute the two books of Johann Sebastian Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier didn’t start off as one huge collection of 48 works – in fact, the set of “24 Preludes and Fugues” composed in 1742 were not issued as a “sequel” to the original WTC of 1722. Book I exploits the concept that many more composers (from Chopin to moist recently François Dompierre) have followed, that of creating a set of works written in every major and minor key. Details at our archive page @ https://archive.org/details/04BWV849 [First Time on our Podcasting Channel]
