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Easy Bach piano pieces
The most approachable Bach on the shelf, free to read, hear and print. Easiest first.
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Bach wrote much of his keyboard music to teach with, for his own children and pupils, which makes him one of the best composers to learn from. The minuets and musettes in the Anna Magdalena notebook, the little preludes and the two-part inventions are where two hands first learn to say different things at once.
These are the gentlest of his pieces on the shelf, easiest first. Some of the best-loved (the Minuet in G among them) turned out to be by his contemporaries, copied into the family notebook; each piece's page says so where it matters.
Invention No. 8 in F major, BWV 779
F major · 2 min
Musette in D (BWV Anh. 126)
D major · 1 min
Jesus Alegria dos Homens
G major · 4 min
Duetto No. 2 in F major, BWV 803
F major · 6 min
Minuet in A minor, BWV Anh. 120
A minor · <1 min
English Suite No. 1 in A major, BWV 806: Bourrée II
A minor · 3 min
English Suite No. 1 in A major, BWV 806: Bourrée I
A major · 4 min
Aria in D Minor
D minor · <1 min
Minuet in B flat major, BWV Anh. 118
B♭ major · <1 min
Duetto No. 1 in E minor, BWV 802
E minor · 4 min
Duetto No. 4 in A minor, BWV 805
A minor · 4 min
French Suite No. 3 in B minor, BWV 814: Menuet
B minor · 1 min
Invention No. 11 in G minor, BWV 782
G minor · 2 min
French Suite No. 3 in B minor, BWV 814: VII. Gigue
B minor · 1 min
Polonaise in F major, BWV Anh. 117b
F major · 1 min
Polonaise in g Minor (BWV Anh. 119)
G minor · <1 min
Invention No. 7 in E minor, BWV 778
E minor · 2 min
March in E-flat major, BWV Anh. 127
E♭ major · 2 min
Invention No. 2 in C minor BWV 773
C minor · 2 min
Partita No. 6 in E minor, BWV 830: Tempo di Gavotta
E minor · 3 min
Gavotte in F Major (BWV Anh. 131)
F major · <1 min
Wachet auf ruft uns die Stimme (Sleepers Awake! A Voice is Calling)
E♭ major · 3 min
Prelude in C minor - BWV 999
C minor · 2 min
March in D Major (BWV Anh. 122)
D major · <1 min
The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080: Canon per Augmentationem in Contrario Motu
D minor · 9 min
Invention No. 10 in G major, BWV 781
G major · 1 min
Prelude in C
C major · 2 min
Prelude in B minor, BWV 869 (WTC I No. 24)
B minor · 3 min
Little Prelude in E minor, BWV 938
E minor · <1 min
French Suite No. 3 in B minor, BWV 814: I. Allemande
B minor · 2 min