Prelude in C major, BWV 846
by Johann Sebastian Bach
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- Key
- C major
- Tempo
- ♩ = 66
- Time
- 4/4
- Bars
- 35
- Level
- Beginner · Difficulty 3 of 10
- Genre
- Classical
- Origin
- Germany
- Composer
- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
About this piece
The first prelude of the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, complete: 35 bars of broken chords over a slowly moving bass. The harmony does the work and the right hand keeps one pattern going.
Why it is free to use
Johann Sebastian Bach died in 1750, more than 70 years ago. The notes come from the Mutopia Project's typesetting (Mutopia piece 5, licence: Public Domain); we converted them to MusicXML and checked them against Mutopia's MIDI file, note for note.
About this score
This is the complete piece, not an excerpt. The notes were converted from the Mutopia Project's public-domain typesetting of Prelude in C major, BWV 846 (piece 5; licence: Public Domain) and checked against Mutopia's MIDI file, note for note (repeats included). The score is the same music in a different file format; we dedicate our conversion to the public domain (CC0 1.0). Mutopia Project page