Klavierbüchlein für Wilhelm Friedemann Bach


Klavierbüchlein für Wilhelm Friedemann Bach is a collection of keyboard music compiled by the German Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach for his eldest son Wilhelm Friedemann. It is frequently referred to simply as Klavierbüchlein.
Johann Sebastian began compiling the collection in 1720. Most of the pieces included are better known as parts of The Well-Tempered Clavier and the Inventions and Sinfonias. The authorship of most other works is debated: particularly the famous Little Preludes BWV 924–932 are sometimes attributed to Wilhelm Friedemann Bach.

Contents

The book begins with a preface that contains an explanation of clefs and a guide to playing ornaments. The pieces of the collection are arranged by complexity, beginning with the most simple works. Of these, Applicatio in C major BWV 994 and Prelude in G minor BWV 930 are particularly notable because they are the only surviving works that feature the fingering in Bach's own hand. They were probably added by Johann Caspar Vogler, Bach's pupil and successor at Weimar.
Here is a complete list of pieces, in order of appearance in the manuscript, with the numbering as in most score editions:
  1. BWV 994, Applicatio in C major
  2. BWV 924, Prelude in C major
  3. BWV 691, Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten, chorale prelude for organ
  4. BWV 926, Prelude in D minor
  5. BWV 753, Jesu, meine Freude, chorale prelude for organ
  6. BWV 836, Allemande in G minor. Possibly composed by Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
  7. BWV 837, Allemande in G minor, incomplete. Possibly composed by Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
  8. BWV 927, Prelude in F major
  9. BWV 930, Prelude in G minor
  10. BWV 928, Prelude in F major
  11. BWV 841, Minuet in G major. Probably not by Johann Sebastian Bach. This piece was also included in the 1722 Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach
  12. BWV 842, Minuet in G minor
  13. BWV 843, Minuet in G major
  14. BWV 846a, Praeludium 1 in C major. Alternative version of the prelude from Prelude and Fugue in C major from the first book of The Well-Tempered Clavier.
  15. BWV 847/1, Praeludium 2 in C minor
  16. BWV 851/1, Praeludium 3 in D minor
  17. BWV 850/1, Praeludium 4 in D major
  18. BWV 855a, Praeludium 5 in E minor. Alternative version of the prelude from Prelude and Fugue in E minor from the first book of The Well-Tempered Clavier. This was later arranged for pianoforte by Alexander Siloti and transposed into a Prelude in B minor.
  19. BWV 854/1, Praeludium 6 in E major
  20. BWV 856/1, Praeludium 7 in F major
  21. BWV 848/1, Praeludium in C major
  22. BWV 849/1, Praeludium in C minor
  23. BWV 853/1, Praeludium in E minor
  24. BWV 857/1, Praeludium in F minor
  25. Piéce pour le Clavecin, harpsichord suite by. Two movements: I. Allemande; II. Courante.
  26. BWV 924a, Prelude in C major
  27. BWV 925, Prelude in D major
  28. BWV 932, Prelude in E minor
  29. BWV 931, Prelude in A minor
  30. Baß-Skizze in G minor. Not included in the BWV catalogue.
  31. BWV 953, Fuga a 3 in C major.
  32. BWV 772, Praeambulum 1 in C major
  33. BWV 775, Praeambulum 2 in D minor
  34. BWV 778, Praeambulum 3 in E minor
  35. BWV 779, Praeambulum 4 in F major
  36. BWV 781, Praeambulum 5 in G major
  37. BWV 784, Praeambulum 6 in A minor
  38. BWV 786, Praeambulum 7 in B minor
  39. BWV 785, Praeambulum 8 in B major
  40. BWV 783, Praeambulum 9 in A major
  41. BWV 782, Praeambulum 10 in G minor
  42. BWV 780, Praeambulum 11 in F minor
  43. BWV 777, Praeambulum 12 in E major
  44. BWV 776, Praeambulum 13 in E major
  45. BWV 774, Praeambulum 14 in D major
  46. BWV 773, Praeambulum 15 in C minor
  47. BWV 824, Suite in A major by Georg Philipp Telemann. Three parts: Allemande, Courante and Gigue, TWV 32:14
  48. Partita di Signore Steltzeln, harpsichord suite by Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel. Four movements: I. Ouverture; II. Air Italien; III. Bourrée; IV. Minuet; With an additional movement composed by Bach: V. Menuet – Trio, BWV 929
  49. BWV 787, Fantasia 1 in C major
  50. BWV 790, Fantasia 2 in D minor
  51. BWV 793, Fantasia 3 in E minor
  52. BWV 794, Fantasia 4 in F major
  53. BWV 796, Fantasia 5 in G major
  54. BWV 799, Fantasia 6 in A minor
  55. BWV 801, Fantasia 7 in B minor
  56. BWV 800, Fantasia 8 in B major
  57. BWV 798, Fantasia 9 in A major
  58. BWV 797, Fantasia 10 in G minor
  59. BWV 795, Fantasia 11 in F minor
  60. BWV 792, Fantasia 12 in E major
  61. BWV 791, Fantasia 13 in E major
  62. BWV 789, Fantasia 14 in D major, incomplete.