Prelude No. 22 in B♭ minor, Well-Tempered Clavier II (BWV 891)
Johann Sebastian Bach · Level 5 (Advanced) · Baroque · Piano
A vast, grave and meditative three-voice prelude, written like a three-part invention whose motif circulates constantly. From Book II of the Well-Tempered Clavier (around 1740), a second cycle of preludes and fugues in all twenty-four keys. B♭ minor, 2/2, 83 bars (about 6 minutes), complete score.
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How to practise it
- Listen first: the site plays it while the score scrolls.
- Wait mode: the score waits for you at every note, at your own pace.
- Tempo challenge: play in time, with a score and a map of the bars you got right.
- Practise each hand alone until you can sing it, then put them together slowly in Wait mode; the edition’s ornaments are not written here. Key signature with 5 flats: name them aloud before playing and spot the places where accidentals cancel them. Start hands separately in Wait mode, then put hands together at a slow tempo before speeding up gradually.
More pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach
- Partita 4 (BWV 828) — movement 6
- Aus meines Herzens Grunde (Chorale 1) (BWV 269)
- Two-Part Invention No. 1 in C major (BWV 772)
- Prelude No. 1 in C major, Well-Tempered Clavier I (BWV 846)
- Two-Part Invention No. 13 in A minor (BWV 784)
- Two-Part Invention No. 8 in F major (BWV 779)
- Little Prelude in F major (BWV 928)
- Two-Part Invention No. 4 in D minor (BWV 775)
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