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Johann Sebastian Bach
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Short Prelude and Fugue in E minor, BWV 555 Click to Listen [3:17] (a=466 Hz)
The prelude is in a different meter than the fugue, and one of the performance challenges is to make that change immediately apparent even though the subject is slow-moving. Some important technical lessons are contained having to do with suspensions, chromaticism and parallel thirds played together in each hand. WellTemperament-VallottiYoung. Instrument: The Hinsz-Organ at Leens in the province of Groningen (1733/34) - Samples by Hauptwerk.nl

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