must be said that he was known to be an accomplished keyboardist and sight-reader. contends that the Forkel story is entirely spurious.

Arnold Schering has suggested that the aria on which the variations are based was not written by Bach. More recent scholarly literature (such as the edition by Christoph Wolff) suggests that there is no basis for such doubts.

Publication

Rather unusually for Bach's works,

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