ABOUT: My research into Bach's tempo practices indicates that Bach intended this Prelude to last three minutes without repeats or six minutes with repeats. In this performance, I take the repeats and my timing is exactly six minutes. How do I know this to be true? Because in 1992 I had a revelation or epiphany in which some unexplained force revealed to me Bach's system of tempo. I did not sleep for two days and the pure adrenaline I was running on gave me the power to decipher Bach's secret tempo practices. I felt like I was possessed by some spirit that revealed to me Bach's tempo secrets. Sometime in the near future, I will publish my findings in a long and detailed book titled "Discovering Bach's Secret Tempo Code".

Bach had secrets and arcane practices of number symbolism and planning of tempo and numbers of measures (and most likely other strange things) that he did not divulge to anyone. One of his secret practices was planning a certain tempo to achieve a certain duration such as three or six minutes. In this Prelude, he apparently planned it to have tempo of 63 bpm, which results in a duration of six minutes (with repeats). You calculate this by taking the number of measures (47) and multiplying this by the number of beats per measure (4) and then dividing this by the speed of the beat (63). This gives you the duration at 63 bpm without repeats, 2.98, which translates to two minutes and 59 seconds (2:59). Analysis of the numbers of measures Bach composed reveals some mind-boggling and startling findings. Namely, that Bach had to have known his most common tempi in beats per minute (even though he had no metronome), which then allowed him to plan a "target" number of measures which when played at his ideal tempo would result in his desired duration. I could go on and on, but I will stop here.........

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