Johann Sebastian Bach : Prelude and Fugue in C Major

The Prelude and Fugue in C major from Johann Sebastian Bach’s *The Well-Tempered Clavier*, Book I, open the cycle with a clearly structured sequence of broken chords in the prelude and a strictly led, polyphonic fugue structure. While the prelude unfolds with a steady, flowing motion, the fugue develops from a short, concise theme that appears successively in the individual voices.