Prelude, Fugue, and Allegro in E-flat major, BWV 998, is a musical composition written by Johann Sebastian Bach.
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The movements in this piece are:
The piece was written in the first half of the 1740s.[1]
The Prelude is similar to the Well-Tempered Clavier (the second book of which dates from around the same time as this work), in which there are many arpeggios.[1] There is a pause in the motion, when just before the coda, there is a fermata over a third-inversion seventh chord with a rich suspension.[1]
The Fugue is one of only three that Bach wrote in ternary form, with an exact repetition of its contrapuntally active opening section framing a texturally contrasting central section.[2]
The Allegro is a binary form dance with 16th notes.[1]