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Bach's 'Well-tempered Clavier' (the 49 Preludes and Fugues) stands at the core of the baroque keyboard music and has been a model and inspiration for performers and composers ever since it was written. The author draws on the Bach literature of the past three hundred years to explore German traditions of composition types and Bach's novel expansion of them. The author also explains Bach's instruments and innovations in keyboard technique in the general context of early eighteenth-century developments and theoretical literature relating to keyboard temperaments from 1680 to 1750. The author provides commentaries on the individual preludes and fugues.