• Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in Eb Major für Lute or Harpsichord
 BWV 998 GND

Works for Lute and Lute-Clavier (or Keyboard/Cembalo), unknown
Genre
  • Work for lute instruments
Scoring
  • Laute/Cembalo
Date of origin, Work history
  • Ende 1730er Jahre (autographe Schriftformen; Nachweis über Freundschaft mit den Dresdner Lautenisten Silvius Leopold Weiß und Johann Kropfgans)

  • BWV 997 and 998 are formally largely the same (with a combination of sonata and suite form as well as a fugue with da capo form, which can only be traced in Bach's works from the 1730s).
Original sources
Unbekannter Privatbesitz, BWV 998 [Score]
Additional sources
D-LEb Go. S. 80, Faszikel 2 [Score]
Verschollen BWV 998, W. Tappert [Score]
Edition
NBA V/10, S. 114 (Thomas Kohlhase, 1976) – Critical report (1982), S. 149
persistent ID
BachDigitalWork_work_00001176
Static URL
https://www.bach-digital.de/receive/BachDigitalWork_work_00001176
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2026-04-22 01:47:48
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