The Prelude in C Minor (BWV 999) is a musical work for solo lute written by the composer Johann Sebastian Bach.
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Recordings of this piece are rare unless it is performed as an introduction to BWV 1000, which is Bach's Fugue in G minor. It can be found as a stand-alone piece on the Andres Segovia & John Williams album, The Art Of The Guitar (track 18).
This prelude was probably written during the late 1710s or early 1720s.[1]
An edition of this work that is arranged for piano is available under the title J. S. Bach: Eighteen Little Preludes, edited by Keith Snell. Since the lute is a very rare and uncommon instrument today, most people perform this work on the piano or guitar.