Fugue in E minor, BWV 914, easy version

Melody and left-hand roots

The melody as Bach wrote it, with the left hand playing only the root of the harmony at the start of each bar. It keeps 891 of the piece's 1800 notes and adds none: a sketch of the piece in its own notes, to read before the real thing. Level 4 of 7, where the piece as written is level 5.

Level: 4 of 7
As written: Level 5
Notes: 891 of 1800
Key: E minor
Time: 4/4
Length: 72 bars

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The first 8 bars of Fugue in E minor, BWV 914, easy version, on the grand staff — The first 8 bars of the easy version.

The piece as written, level 5, and all 4 of its versions are on Fugue in E minor, BWV 914's page.

Score from a copy shared on MuseScore (Public Domain Mark 1.0); the composition is public domain: Johann Sebastian Bach died in 1750. Credits

Two sources agree. Two copies made by different people were compared bar by bar; the 44 bars where they differed were settled against the scan. Only those bars were looked up in a printed edition, J. S. Bach, Toccata in E minor, BWV 914, in Johann Sebastian Bach's Werke, Bd. 36: Clavierwerke IV, ed. Ernst Naumann (Bach-Gesellschaft, Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig, 1890); the rest hasn't been compared with it yet. How we check Heard a wrong note? Tell us