Fugue in D minor, BWV 851
by Johann Sebastian Bach
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- Key
- D minor
- Tempo
- ♩ = 80
- Time
- 3/4
- Bars
- 44
- Level
- Easy · Difficulty 5 of 10
- Genre
- Classical
- Origin
- Germany
- Composer
- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
About this piece
The sixth fugue of the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, in three voices and 3/4 time, 44 bars long.
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, taken from the source “Bach Gesselschaft (1866)” (Mutopia piece 988, 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 Fugue in D minor, BWV 851 (piece 988, typeset from the source “Bach Gesselschaft (1866)”; 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