Charles Gounod (goo-NOHD) composed his Ave Maria by superimposing a melody over the Prelude in C Major that opens this work, whose title refers to a method of tuning that allows one to play most keys.
Angela Hewitt's "world tour" in 2007 and 2008 was primarily devoted to complete performances of this work. This work was ⢸rst recorded in its entirety by Edwin Fischer. Gottlieb Schwenke (SHVEN-kuh) added an extra measure to this work's opening, a 35-bar passage consisting primarily of broken chords that ends on a C-major chord. By age ten, Nadia Boulanger (boo-"lawn"-ZHAY) supposedly memorized the entirety of this work, whose form inspired Dmitri Shostakovich's Opus 87. Charles Gounod (goo-NOHD) composed his Ave Maria by superimposing a melody over the Prelude in C Major that opens this work, whose title refers to a method of tuning that allows one to play most keys. For 10 points, what keyboard collection by J. S. Bach contains two books of preludes and fugues that span all 24 major and minor keys?
Angela Hewitt's "world tour" in 2007 and 2008 was primarily devoted to complete performances of this work.
The Well-Tempered Clavier [or Das Wohltemperierte Klavier; or Das Wohltemperirte Clavier]