Prelude and Fugue in G minor, BWV 861
Keyboard composition by Johann Sebastian Bach / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Prelude and Fugue in G minor, BWV 861, is No. 16 in Johann Sebastian Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier Book I, keyboard music consisting of 24 preludes and fugues in every major and minor key.
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Bach's G minor fugue is "insistent and pathetic".[citation needed] The subject also appears in his funeral cantata Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit (God's time is the very best time).[1] The subject of the fugue employs a minor 6th leap in the first measure, then resolves it with a more conventional stepwise motion. Overall, the piece has a foreboding and admonishing tone.[citation needed]