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Title page of autograph "Johann Sebastian Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier" (The Well-Tempered Clavier)

Taken from the Bach Gesamtausgabe (BGA), vol. 44 [B.W. XLIV]: "Joh. Seb. Bach's handschrift" (Joh.Seb.Bach's manuscripts), Originally published by the Bach-Gesellschaft in Leipzig, 1895. This image is in the public domain.

German text reads:

Das Wohltemperirte Clavier.
oder
Praeludia, und
Fugen durch alle Tone und Semitonia,
So wohl tertiam majorem oder Ut Re Mi anlan-
gend, als auch tertiam minorem oder Re
Mi Fa betreffend. Zum
Nutzen und Gebrauch der Lehr-begierigen
Musicalischen Jugend, als auch derer in diesem stu-
dio schon habil seyenden besonderem
ZeitVertreib auffgesetzet
und verfertiget von
Johann Sebastian Bach.
p. t: HochFürstlich Anhalt-
Cöthenischen Capel-
Meistern und Di-
rectore derer
CammerMu-
siquen.
Anno
1722.


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