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Johann Sebastian Bach

Prelude in b minor  Play

Spencer Myer Piano

Recorded on 08/29/2012, uploaded on 12/26/2012

Musician's or Publisher's Notes

The Prelude in B Minor is an arrangement for piano by Alexander Siloti of the Prelude in E Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach from his Klavierbüchlein für Wilhelm Friedemann Bach. Bach reused the piece as the tenth prelude in the first volume of The Well-Tempered Clavier. Siloti transposes Bach’s original down from the original E minor to B minor, and the steady sixteenth note figuration that was originally given by Bach to the left hand is changed to the right hand, making for a remarkably ethereal and somber take on the original version.      Spencer Myer