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Goldberg Variations
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Key facts
- Key
- G major
- Dedication
- Hermann Karl von Keyserling
- Published
- 1741, Nuremberg
- Publisher
- Balthasar Schmid
- Movements
- Aria + 30 variations
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- number of parts of this work
- 32
- Commons category
- Goldberg Variations
- catalog code
- 988
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The Goldberg Variations (German: Goldberg-Variationen), BWV 988, is a musical composition for keyboard by Johann Sebastian Bach, consisting of an aria and a set of thirty variations. First published in 1741, it is named after Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, who may also have been the first performer of the work.
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