CHORALEPRELUDE

Chorale prelude

In music, a chorale prelude is a short liturgical composition for organ using a chorale as its basis. It was a predominant style of the German Baroque era and reached its culmination in the works of J.S. Bach, who wrote 46 examples of the form in his Orgelbüchlein.

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