The Well-Tempered Synthesizer | ||||
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Released | November 1969 | |||
Recorded | 1969 | |||
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Length | 37:58 | |||
Label | Columbia Masterworks Records | |||
Producer | Rachel Elkind | |||
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Rolling Stone | (Positive)[2] |
The Well-Tempered Synthesizer is the second studio album from the American musician and composer Wendy Carlos, originally released under her birth name Walter Carlos, in November 1969 on Columbia Masterworks Records.[3] Following the success of her previous album, Switched-On Bach (1968), Carlos proceeded to record a second album of classical music performed on a modular Moog synthesizer from multiple composers, including Johann Sebastian Bach, Claudio Monteverdi, Domenico Scarlatti, and George Frideric Handel. Its title is a play on words from Bach's set of preludes and fugues named The Well-Tempered Clavier.
Upon its release, the album peaked at No. 199 on the US Billboard 200 chart and was nominated for two Grammy Awards.