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Prelude & Fugue No. 1 was written in 1985 for the sixtieth birthday celebrations of composer Anthony Hedges. Along with other friends and pupils, I was asked to contribute a short piece based on the notes associated with the family name Hedges (H & S deriving from the German names of the notes B & E-flat). A collection of these pieces was published by Fentone Music. Prelude & Fugue No. 2 was sketched shortly afterwards but not completed until a dozen years later. It also begins by using notes associated with the name of a friend, but I can no longer remember from whose name the notes ADSEC were taken. The third Prelude was left in sketches during the 1990s, but it was tidied up and given a fugue on related material in 2022. The first Prelude is followed by a three-voice fugue, the second by a four-voice fugue, and the third Prelude by a three- voice fugue.