Bach: Prelude & Fugue

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Johann Sebastian Bach - WTC 1 : Prelude & Fugue, BWV 861 no 16
Key: G Minor	Published: 1722
Level: 8	Period: Baroque
Prelude & Fugue BWV 861 no 16 PS Urtext (sheet music)
Prelude & Fugue BWV 861 no 16 Czerny edition (sheet music)
Prelude & Fugue BWV 861 no 16 Bach-Gesellschaft edition (sheet music)

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JS Bach, Prelude and Fugue in g minor, WTC bk I -- note question ?
September 11, 2008, 02:59:31 PM by Karli

I am looking at measure 18 of the fugue in the alto voice, first note of that measure, E(b). This is the fourth note of a subject re-entry (the previous measure beginning it). I have been entering this fugue into a four part notation so I can isolate the voices better, and as I was listening to just this voice on the Sibelius playback, my ear wanted for that Eb to be an E-natural. I looked at the score I am using and it did not read E natural, so I looked into another edition of the music that I have here : "Kalmus" and in that edition there is a footnote indicating that in the "Gerber" edition, that note is in fact an E natural, not an Eb. So, I looked on the remaining PS editions, all of which also have an Eb. My ear badly wants an E natural and apparently in some other edition that I don't have, it is an E natural and not a flat.

Does anybody happen to have any information on this ?

Thanks