Bach/Siloti Prelude in B Minor

The Prelude in B minor (J. S. Bach, arranged Siloti) is a transcription for piano by Alexander Siloti of the Prelude in E minor BWV 855a by Johann Sebastian Bach from his Klavierbüchlein für Wilhelm Friedemann Bach. Johann Sebastian Bach reused the piece (in a slightly different form) as the tenth prelude in the first volume of his The Well-Tempered Clavier. The piece has been performed by many pianists, including Emil Gilels.

Klavierbüchlein für Wilhelm Friedemann Bach is a collection of keyboard music compiled by Johann Sebastian Bach for his oldest son Wilhelm Friedemann Bach. Most of the pieces were composed by Johann Sebastian Bach, and are better known as parts of the Well-Tempered Clavier and the Inventions and Sinfonias. The authorship of some of the other pieces is debated; in particular, some of the famous Little Preludes, BWV 924–932, are sometimes attributed to Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, not to Johann Sebastian Bach.

Alexander Siloti (1863 - 1945) was a Russian pianist, conductor and composer. He made more than 200 piano transcriptions, as well as orchestral arrangements, of the music of Bach, Beethoven, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, and Vivaldi. Perhaps his most famous transcription is the The Prelude in B minor (J. S. Bach, arranged Siloti) .