The Essay: The Well-Tempered Clavier

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The Essay: The Well-Tempered Clavier: Clive Myrie

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The Well-Tempered Clavier

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Clive Myrie considers Bach's role his constant travel companion.

Clive Myrie considers Bach's role as his travelling companion to some of the most challenging places in the world.

The Essay reflects upon the first book of The Well-Tempered Clavier by JS Bach, his landmark collection of Preludes and Fugues in every available key. 

In this edition, Clive Myrie considers Bach’s role as a constant in his life, inspiring him as a boy, and becoming his travelling companion to some of the most challenging places in the world.

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About the essayist...
Clive Myrie is an award-winning journalist, writer and film-maker; and one of the BBC’s most experienced foreign correspondents, having served as the BBC’s Asia, Africa, Washington and Europe Correspondent. He makes features and programmes for ‘Panorama’, ‘Newsnight’ and BBC Radio 4 and is a regular presenter of the One, Six and Ten O’Clock News bulletins on BBC One, and of news shows on the BBC News Channel. He also presents 'Mastermind'. In 2018, he was part of the BBC News team that received a Royal Television Society Award for Best Foreign Coverage for its reporting in Yemen.

Clive Myrie was born in Bolton, Lancashire, and studied law at the University of Sussex.

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The Essay celebrates JS Bach's landmark collection of Preludes and Fugues in all 24 keys.

The Essay celebrates 300 years since the publication of the first book of The Well-Tempered Clavier by JS Bach - a landmark collection of Preludes and Fugues in every available key.

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