Prelude and Fugue in C-sharp minor, BWV 849

Fugue in C♯ minor of the Well-Tempered Clavier Book I in Bach's handwriting.

The Prelude and Fugue in C-sharp minor, BWV 849, is a piece of music for keyboard by Johann Sebastian Bach. It is the fourth prelude and fugue in the first book of The Well-Tempered Clavier, a group of 48 preludes and fugues.

Sources

Score editions

• Kroll, Franz, editor (1866). "Praeludium IV" and "Fuga IV", pp. 14–17 in Bach-Gesellschaft Ausgabe Volume 14: Clavierwerke Band 3. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel
• Dürr, Alfred, editor (1989). New Bach Edition Series V: Keyboard and Lute Works Volume 6.1: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier I, Score and Critical Commentary Bärenreiter

Other

• Alfred Dürr (1998). Johann Sebastian Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier. Bärenreiter Werkeinführungen. ISBN 9783761812297. (4th edition: 2012)
• Cecil Gray: The Forty-eight Preludes and Fugues of J.S. Bach. Oxford University Press, London, New York und Toronto 1938.
• Joseph Kerman: The Art of Fugue. Oakland: University of California Press 2005.
• Ernst Kurth: Grundlagen des linearen Kontrapunkts. Einführung in Stil und Technik von Bach’s melodischer Polyphonie. Bern, Drechsel 1917.
• Bach Digital Work Template:BDW and Template:BDW at www.bachdigital.de

Other websites

• Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project