For example, Shostakovich begins his C major prelude, the first piece in the cycle, with exactly the same notes that Bach uses in his own C major prelude, BWV 846, which likewise begins The Well-Tempered Clavier. References to and quotations from Bach's cycle appear throughout the work. Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, an earlier set of 48 preludes and fugues, are widely held to be the direct inspiration for Shostakovich's cycle, largely based on the work's composition history. Relationship to Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier 28, and Shostakovich's own earlier 24 Preludes, Op. 1 and 2), then to one sharp (G major, E minor), two sharps (D major, B minor), and so on, ending with D minor (1 flat). The pieces proceed in relative major/minor pairs around the circle of fifths: first C major and A minor (prelude and fugue nos. 13 in F ♯ major is in five voices, while Fugue No. It is one of several examples of music written in all major and/or minor keys.įorm and structure The circle of fifthsĮach piece is in two parts-a prelude and fugue-varying in pace, length and complexity (for example, Fugue No. A complete performance takes approximately 2 hours and 32 minutes. The cycle was composed in 19 while Shostakovich was in Moscow, and premiered by pianist Tatiana Nikolayeva in Leningrad in December 1952 it was published the same year. 87 by Dmitri Shostakovich are a set of 24 musical pieces for solo piano, one in each of the major and minor keys of the chromatic scale. 2 hours and 32 minutes (complete performance)
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