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This work is the concluding piece of Dmitri Shostakovich's 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87, composed in 1950–51 for solo piano. The cycle was modeled on Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier and traverses all 24 major and minor keys. The D minor fugue is notable for its substantial length and three-voice coun...
The Prelude and Fugue in C minor, Op. 87 No. 20, is part of Dmitri Shostakovich's 24 Preludes and Fugues, a piano cycle composed in 1950–51 and modeled on J.S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. The set traverses all 24 major and minor keys following the circle of fifths. Shostakovich composed the cycle...
The Prelude and Fugue in G minor, Op. 87 No. 22, is part of Dmitri Shostakovich's cycle of 24 Preludes and Fugues for solo piano, composed in 1950–51. The complete set traverses all major and minor keys in the manner of J.S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier and was written after Shostakovich attended th...
The Prelude and Fugue in F minor, Op. 87, No. 18, is part of Dmitri Shostakovich's cycle of 24 Preludes and Fugues for solo piano, composed in 1950–51. The cycle traverses all major and minor keys in the manner of J. S. Bach's 'Well-Tempered Clavier,' which Shostakovich studied intensively after att...
The Prelude and Fugue in F-sharp major, Op. 87, No. 13, is a keyboard work by the Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich. It forms part of his 24 Preludes and Fugues, a substantial piano cycle composed between 1950 and 1951 that was modeled directly on Johann Sebastian Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. Spa...
The "Prelude and Fugue in F major, Op. 87 No. 23" is a solo piano piece composed by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1950 and 1951 as part of his monumental cycle of 24 Preludes and Fugues. The entire collection was directly inspired by Johann Sebastian Bach's "The Well-Tempered Clavier" and systematically tr...
Rodion Shchedrin's 24 Preludes and Fugues for Piano (1963–1964) is a Soviet-era cycle traversing all major and minor keys, conceived as a 20th-century Soviet counterpart to Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier.
