Angela Hewitt: Bach Prelude Fugue No. 24 in B minor BWV 893, WTC Book II

From the Wartburg, Eisenach, 2000 The WellTempered Clavier Book II Angela Hewitt piano Johann Sebastian Bach Prelude Fugue No. 24 in B minor BWV 893 Watch other Bachs Preludes and Fugues of The WellTempered Clavier: Subscribe to EuroArts: The title of Bach s WellTempered Clavier refers to the new system of tuning keyboard instruments that had been developed by, amongst others, the Halberstadt organist Andreas Werckmeister (16451706), to make it possible to play in all 24 major and minor keys, something which hitherto had been impossible with meantone tuning. There were, however, several such welltempered tuning in use at that time, and, contrary to earlier assumptions, there is simply no evidence that Bach wrote his two books of preludes and fugues for our modern equal temperament, which is but one of several possible tunings. Whatever the case, for him the tempere