Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 906

Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 906, is a keyboard piece, likely unfinished, composed by Johann Sebastian Bach sometime during his tenure in Leipzig (1723–1750).

The work survives in two autograph scores, one with the fantasia alone, and the other, believed to have been penned around 1738 in which the fugue is incomplete.

Based on the watermarks of the paper on which the oldest extant autograph of the Fantasia was written, its likely date of origin is around 1728–1730.

[1] According to Hans-Joachim Schulze, the origin of this manuscript may be connected to Bach's 1738 extended visit to Dresden.

[1] The Fantasia is cast in a three-part sonata form, and is characterized by hand-crossing figures and running triplets.

Bach's second autograph of the Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 906: p. 3, showing the end of the Fantasia and the start of the Fugue. [ 1 ]