The Great Eighteen Chorale Preludes, BWV 651–668, are a set of chorale preludes for organ prepared by Johann Sebastian Bach in Leipzig in his final decade, from earlier works composed in Weimar, where
Johann Sebastian Bach, 1746
The court chapel at the Schloss in Weimar where Bach was court organist. The organ loft is visible at the top of the picture.
The single surviving page of the manuscript of "Vor deinen Thron tret ich", BWV 668, recorded by an unknown copyist in the last year of Bach's life.
The Art of Fugue
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The Art of Fugue, or The Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080, is an incomplete musical work of unspecified instrumentation by Johann Sebastian Bach. Written in the last decade of his life, The Art of Fugue is
Title page of the first edition, 1751
The final page of the Fuga a 3 Soggetti fragment, with a handwritten note by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach that the composer died at this point.