Praeludium & Fuge C-Dur

Johann Kaspar Ferdinand Fischer was a German baroque composer. Contemporaries, like Johann Sebastian Bach, ranked him as one of the best composers for keyboard of his day. Most of his music that survived is meant for organ and/or keyboard. Most pieces by Fischer I uploaded before on my channel are short, so is this one. This prelude and fugue in C major are part of the collection Ariadne Musica. The main part of this collection is a cycle of 20 preludes and fugues in different keys. So Ariadne musica is considered an important precursor to Johann Sebastian Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, which has a similar structure.