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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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Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Johann Gottlieb Goldberg
- Movement
- Baroque music
- Composer
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Tonality
- G major
- Image
- Goldberg-titlepage.png
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- number of parts of this work
- 32
- form of creative work
- theme and variation
- derivative work
- Verschiedene Canones, BWV 1087
- Commons category
- Goldberg Variations
- catalog code
- 988
- instrumentation
- keyboard instrument
- has edition or translation
- Open Goldberg Variations
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Composition
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