Prelude in C minor, BWV 871
by Johann Sebastian Bach
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- Key
- C minor
- Tempo
- ♩ = 84
- Time
- 4/4
- Bars
- 28
- Level
- Easy · Difficulty 4 of 10
- Genre
- Classical
- Origin
- Germany
- Composer
- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
About this piece
The second prelude of the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: a brisk, toccata-like piece in C minor with a repeated first section.
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-Gesellschaft” (Mutopia piece 316, 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 minor, BWV 871 (piece 316, typeset from the source “Bach-Gesellschaft”; 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