![]() References to and quotations from Bach's cycle appear throughout the work. Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, an earlier set of 48 preludes and fugues, are widely held to be the direct inspiration for Shostakovich's cycle, largely based on the work's composition history. Relationship to Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier ![]() 28, and Shostakovich's own earlier 24 Preludes, Op. 1 and 2), then to one sharp (G major, E minor), two sharps (D major, B minor), and so on, ending with D minor (1 flat). ![]() The pieces proceed in relative major/minor pairs around the circle of fifths: first C major and A minor (prelude and fugue nos. 13 in F ♯ major is in five voices, while Fugue No. Each piece is in two parts- a prelude and a fugue-varying in pace, length and complexity (for example, Fugue No.
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