"Owing to its conceptual variety, the Wohltemperiertes Klavier constitutes one of Bach's most complete opuses. It equally comprises the world of the chorales and passions, the Baroque dance movements and concertos. The edition has been based on the 5th volume of the facsimile series (Bach works) published by the Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig in 1971. In shaping the text of the publication we also studied the major Urtext editions in general use today. The text variants of an Urtext vali...