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Goldberg Variations
Keyboard work by Johann Sebastian Bach / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other uses, see Goldberg Variations (disambiguation).
The Goldberg Variations (German: Goldberg-Variationen), BWV 988, is a musical composition for keyboard by Johann Sebastian Bach, consisting of an aria and a set of 30 variations. First published in 1741, it is named after Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, who may also have been the first performer of the work.
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