Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue [SEP] instrumentation
Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue
The Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D minor, , is a work for harpsichord by Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach probably composed it during his time in Köthen from 1717 to 1723. The piece was already regarded as a unique masterpiece during his lifetime. It is now often played on piano.
Sources.
An autograph of this work is not known. The musicologist Walther Siegmund-Schultze pinpoints the work to the "fermenting Köthen works" because of its improvisatory and expressive nature, using all
902a – Prelude in G major (alternative version of BWV 902)
- BWV 903 – Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D minor
- BWV 903a – Chromatic Fantasia in D minor (alternative version of BWV 903)
- BWV 904 – Fantasia and Fugue in A minor
- BWV 905 – Fantasia and Fugue in D minor
- BWV 906 – Fantasia and Fugue in C minor (fugue unfinished)
- BWV 907 – Fantasia and Fughetta in B-flat major
- BWV 908 – Fantasia and Fughetta