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Prelude, Trio and Fugue in B-flat major, BWV 545b
pedal trio · pedal diff 5/5 · manual diff 4/5
Prelude, Trio and Fugue in B-flat major, BWV 545b
Johann Sebastian Bach · baroque · Level 5 · Trio & double pedal
On the genre heuristic Prelude, Trio and Fugue in B-flat major, BWV 545b reads as a trio (fully independent) piece (trio); the score itself has not been checked yet. On John Stainer’s pedal syllabus this sits at the Easy Trios / The Legato Style stage: Three fully independent lines (two hands + feet) — the summit of the beginner syllabus, demanding the legato touch; for the trio literature itself Stainer names Bach’s Six Sonatas, Rheinberger’s Ten Trios Op. 49 and Lemmens’ Trios.
Why this piece teaches it
Forty-eight Trios, Bach’s Six Sonatas (Trios), Rheinberger’s Ten Trios, Op. 49, and Lemmens’ Trios.
— Stainer, The Organ: A Manual of the True Principles of Organ Playing (Novello Primer, 1877; ed. 1909) (the Easy Trios / The Legato Style stage of the pedal syllabus).
Confidence: ⚠ heuristic — pending score check. Difficulty from genre heuristic; not yet score-verified.
Score: view on IMSLP (local copy not yet collected).