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Posted by John Rasmussen on September 10, 19102 at 16:31:52:
In Reply to: Bach's well tempered clavier posted by Diva on September 02, 19101 at 10:31:18:
Sorry I'm a year late; I just found this forum and your question!
Bach's innovation allowed musicians to play in all the twenty-four major and minor keys. Before equal temperament took hold, many of the keys with many flats or sharps were simply unplayable because of dissonance; the limits were about three flats or four sharps. But Bach, for the first time, used every key.
Actually, it took more than a century before Chopin repeated Bach's compositional achievement with his 24 Preludes, and other composers began to use all keys. Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich have also composed cycles of 24 pieces in all keys.
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