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The Well-Tempered Clavier 1 is a collection of educational pieces with exceptionally high artistic contents. From all the works written in the Baroque era, no other work has been so well-cherished, frequently performed and thoroughly studied than this work of Bachs. ...
Though the Well-Tempered Clavier (hereafter WTC) was not published during Bachs lifetime, many manuscript copies were made by his pupils and copies spread steadily all over Europe with his fame. ...
The inclusion of an abstruse word, well-tempered, suggests that in those days, well-tuned keyboard instruments on which the pieces written in all the 24 keys could be played were uncommon. ... In 1947, he proposed that this work should be interpreted as Well-Tuned Piano. Later, it became fashionable to regard well-tempered as a kind of unequal temperament and scholars made various attempts to ascertain the temperament used by Bach.
Approximate Word count = 643
Approximate Pages = 2.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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