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Wendy Carlos Switched On Bach

Wendy Carlos (born Walter Carlos, November 14, 1939) is an American musician and composer best known for her electronic music and film scores.

Born and raised in Rhode Island, Carlos studied physics and music at Brown University before moving to New York City in 1962 to study music composition at Columbia University. Studying and working with various electronic musicians and technicians at the city's Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, she helped in the development of the Moog synthesizer, Robert Moog's first commercially available keyboard instrument.

Carlos came to prominence with Switched-On Bach (1968), an album of music by Johann Sebastian Bach performed on a Moog synthesizer, which helped popularize its use in the 1970s and won her three Grammy Awards.[1] Its commercial success led to several more albums, including further synthesized classical music adaptations, and experimental and ambient music. She composed the score to two Stanley Kubrick films, A Clockwork Orange (1971) and The Shining (1980), and for Tron (1982) for Walt Disney Productions.

In 1979, Carlos raised public awareness of transgender issues by disclosing she had been living as a woman since at least 1968, and in 1972 had undergone sex reassignment surgery.


01. Sinfonia to Cantata no. 29, BWV 29.flac
02. Air on a G String from Orchestral Suite no. 3, BWV 1068.flac
03. Two-Part Invention no. 8 in F major, BWV 779.flac
04. Two-Part Invention no. 14 in B-flat major, BWV 785.flac
05. Two-Part Invention no. 4 in D minor, BWV 775.flac
06. “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring”, BWV 147 no. 10.flac
07. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I- Prelude and Fugue no. 7 in E-flat major, BWV 852.flac
08. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I- Prelude and Fugue no. 2 in C minor, BWV 847.flac
09. Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645.flac
10. Brandenburg Concerto no. 3 in G major, BWV 1048- I. Allegro.flac
11. Brandenburg Concerto no. 3 in G major, BWV 1048- II. Adagio.flac
12. Brandenburg Concerto no. 3 in G major, BWV 1048- III. Allegro.flac
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