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:: Chromatic Fantasy & Fugue, BWV 903:: Wim Winters, clavichord Stay updated (and get a free MP3 of Bach's Inventions ▶ Subscribe ▶ All recordings ▶ ============================================== wrote the chromatic fantasy probably around 1720, the year in which his first wife died. You could assume that this is a kind of “lamento“ piece, dedicated to his beloved wife. Not too much is known about the history of this intriguing piece of music, but the fugue probably is not conceived at the same time, but still during Bach's lifetime at least in one copy (if I am right here just digging in the information in my head), that has been made before 1750. Interesting with this fantasy is the fact that Bach prescribed dynamic marks, p and f. Often played at the harpsichord (sometimes to great effect), it is impossible to make the prescribed dynamic differences by
