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unusual facts about The Well-Tempered Synthesizer


The Well-Tempered Synthesizer

This was long before the days of MIDI sequencers and recording the album was by all accounts a laborious process.


András Schiff

For G. Henle, he provided fingerings for new editions of Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier (published in 2006) and fingerings and missing cadenzas for a new edition of the Mozart piano concertos (begun in 2007).

Beethoven and his contemporaries

:"'First I played a small piece of Ries Ferdinand Ries, another pupil of Beethoven. When I had finished Beethoven asked if I could play a fugue by Bach. I chose the C minor fugue from The Well-Tempered Clavier. "Can you transpose this fugue?"

Davey Winder

Winder was contacted through CIX email over the internet by technological culture writer Howard Rheingold, a habitué of The Well, another early online community based in the United States, and eventually the two met in person at Winder's home; the meeting is described in Rheingold's book, The Virtual Community.

Edmund Crispin

Gareth Roberts has stated that the tone of his Doctor Who novel The Well-Mannered War was modelled upon Crispin's style.

Flying Steps

Under the artistic direction of Christoph Hagel, in 2010 they presented the dance performance Red Bull Flying Bach, with breakdance and contemporary dance to the music The Well-Tempered Clavier by Johann Sebastian Bach.

Frank Cubillos

The installation launched on April 12, 2012 at noon with a simultaneous play-in of Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I at all 30 pianos.

Jovan Gojković

Gojković, nicknamed Cune after the well-known singer, made his first steps playing in his hometown club FK BIP Čačak, from where he moved, in summer 1995, for the biggest city club, the top league FK Borac Čačak.

Judy Malloy

She was an early creator of online interactive and collaborative fiction on The WELL and Arts Wire.

Spdfgh

The band had songs included on the soundtracks of the films Love and Other Catastrophes and The Well.

TechSoup Global

TechSoup Global's founding organization CompuMentor was created in 1987 when Daniel Ben-Horin (today Founder and Chief Instigator of TechSoup Global) was inspired by the participants on The WELL, one of the very first online communities, to create a program in which those with technology skills (“mentors”) volunteered to assist nonprofit organizations gain a foothold with new information technologies.

The Well-Groomed Bride

Unfortunately, he loses the bottle to a beautiful young woman named Margie Dawson (Olivia de Havilland), who is about to be married to Army lieutenant Torchy McNeil (Sonny Tufts), an Oregon football star, whom she has not seen in two years.

The Well-Groomed Bride is a 1946 American romantic comedy film directed by Sidney Lanfield and starring Olivia de Havilland, Ray Milland, and Sonny Tufts.

In the spring of 1945 in San Francisco, United States Navy lieutenant Dudley Briggs (Ray Milland) is promised a two-week furlough and a promotion by his ship's captain if he can acquire a bottle of French champagne by the next morning to be used in launching of the U.S.S. Vengeance, the Navy's newest aircraft carrier.

The Well-Spoken Thesaurus

In "Rhetorical Form and Design," Heehler serves up 17 lessons from such writers and speakers as T.S. Eliot, Margaret Atwood, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, Barack Obama, Martin Luther King Jr., and Cintra Wilson.

The Well-Tempered Clavier

Mark Lindley, a researcher of historical temperaments, has written several surveys of temperament styles in the German Baroque tradition.

Les Guitares bien tempérées (The Well-Tempered Guitars), a set of 24 preludes and fugues for two guitars, in all 24 major and minor keys, by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, which was inspired in both title and structure by Bach's work

The Well-Worn Lock

The episode opens with a quote from Robert Louis Stevenson, and features several actors who would reappear in unrelated roles in both Millennium and its sister series The X-Files.

The Well's on Fire

Les Fradkin covered "Fellow Travellers" as part of a "Beyond The Pale" Compilation.

Too Big to Know

Weinberger discusses topics such as expertise, echo chambers, open government, the WELL, Debian, the U.S. Army's Center for the Advancement of Leader Development and Organizational Learning; and the writing of Charles Darwin (On the Origin of Species) and Nicholas G. Carr ("Is Google Making Us Stoopid?").

Walter Parratt

He was child prodigy: on one occasion he played Bach's complete The Well-Tempered Clavier by heart, without notice, at the age of only ten.

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach

This education also included (parts of) the French Suites, (Two-Part) Inventions, (Three-Part) Sinfonias (popularly known as "Inventions"), the first volume of The Well-Tempered Clavier, and the six Trio Sonatas for organ.

In Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's set of six Prelude and Fugues for string trio, K. 404a, contains five fugues transcribed from The Well-Tempered Clavier by Johann Sebastian Bach while the sixth fugue in F minor, is a transcription of one of the Eight Fugues (Falck 31) of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach.


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