“Prélude“ BWV 855a von (1685-1750).
Transcription for clarinet and bas-clarinet.
The “Prélude“ is originally from the “Clavier-Büchlein“ written for Wilhelm Friedemann Bach. It is there as N18 Præludium 5 in E-minor.
Later, Bach rewrote this Prelude for his “Das wohltemperierte Klavier“ in Prelude X BWV 855 E-minor.
Alexander Siloti (1863-1954) - is russian pianist, a cousin of the russian pianist and composer Sergei Rachmaninov. He made an arrangement the Prelude BWV 855a for piano, transpo