WTC II is great bread and butter music. You can’t listen to the Goldberg Variations every day, but you can listen to the WTC II every day.
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What do you think of Glenn Gould’s version of it?
Being a bumpkin, I first thought a well tempered clavier was a harpsichord or piano that was well tuned to the 12-tone tempered octive.
But the post indicates that it is a collection of musical compositions for multiple keyboard instruments. Why was the term “well tempered clavier” chosen.
And Wikipedia mentions “short tempered clavier”. Hmm.
A list like this needs the Brandenburg Concertos.
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Is that anything like a duck billed clavicle?
No arguments on Mass in B Minor as one of Bach’s greatest compositions, but do you really want to classify it as a keyboard piece? (The organ in Et incarnatus est and Agnus Dei is sublime, but it’s just one element.)