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List of chorale harmonisations by Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach's chorale harmonisations, alternatively named four-part chorales, are Lutheran hymn settings that characteristically conform to the following:

Around 400 of such chorale settings by Bach, mostly composed in the first four decades of the 18th century, are extant:


Apart from homophonic choral settings, Bach's Lutheran hymn harmonisations also appear as:

also known as closing movement of cantata BWV 27: five-part harmonisation published, for instance, in Vopelius' 1682 Neu Leipziger Gesangbuch, p. 947.[12]

"Welt, ade! ich bin dein müde", BWV Anh. 170

Cantata , movement 11: harmonisation by Christoph Peter published in 1652, later adopted in Vopelius' Neu Leipziger Gesangbuch: "Ermuntre dich, mein schwacher Geist", p. 70.[13]

BWV 43

Cantata , movement 6 (BWV 8/6): Daniel Vetter's four-part setting of "Liebster Gott, wann werd ich sterben", published in 1713.[14][15]

BWV 8

BGA No. 26 → "Christ lag in Todesbanden", BWV 278

not in BGA Vol. 39: "Christ lag in Todesbanden", BWV 279 (≈BWV 158/4, in BGA Vol. 32)

BGA No. 27 → "Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam", BWV 280

List of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach

(BWV 1–231)

List of Bach cantatas

(BWV 439–518)

List of songs and arias of Johann Sebastian Bach

Dirst, Matthew (2017), "Early Posthumous Published Editions", in Leaver, Robin A. (ed.), The Routledge Research Companion to Johann Sebastian Bach, Taylor & Francis, pp. 464–474,  978-1-4094-1790-3

ISBN

; Kobayashi, Yoshitake, eds. (1998). Bach Werke Verzeichnis: Kleine Ausgabe – Nach der von Wolfgang Schmieder vorgelegten 2. Ausgabe [Bach Works Catalogue: Small Edition – After Wolfgang Schmieder's 2nd edition] (in German). Kirsten Beißwenger (collaborator). (BWV2a ed.). Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel. ISBN 978-3-7651-0249-3. Preface in English and German.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)

Dürr, Alfred

Melamed, Daniel R.; Marissen, Michael (2006), , An Introduction to Bach Studies, Oxford University Press, pp. 124–126, ISBN 978-0-19-530492-3

"Four-part chorales"

[in German] (1976). "Zur Echtheit einiger Choralsätze Johann Sebastian Bachs" [On the authenticity of some of Johann Sebastian Bach's chorale settings]. In Schulze, Hans-Joachim; Wolff, Christoph (eds.). Bach-Jahrbuch 1975 [Bach Yearbook 1975]. Bach-Jahrbuch (in German). Vol. 61. Neue Bachgesellschaft. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt. pp. 50–62. doi:10.13141/bjb.v1975.

Platen, Emil

(1983). ""150 Stücke von den Bachischen Erben": Zur Überlieferung der vierstimmigen Choräle Johann Sebastian Bachs" ["150 pieces from the Bach estate": on the transmission of Johann Sebastian Bach's four-part chorales]. In Schulze, Hans-Joachim; Wolff, Christoph (eds.). Bach-Jahrbuch 1983 [Bach Yearbook 1983]. Bach-Jahrbuch (in German). Vol. 69. Neue Bachgesellschaft. Berlin: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt. pp. 81–100. doi:10.13141/bjb.v1983. ISSN 0084-7682.

Schulze, Hans-Joachim

(1996), "J.S. Bach's Vocal Works in the Breitkopf Nonthematic Catalogs of 1761 to 1836", in George B. Stauffer (ed.), J.S. Bach, the Breitkopfs, and Eighteenth-century Music Trade, Bach Perspectives, vol. 2, University of Nebraska Press, pp. 35–52, ISBN 0-8032-1044-2

Schulze, Hans-Joachim

. Johann Sebastian Bach in seinen Kirchen-Cantaten und Choralgesängen. Berlin: T. Trautwein, 1845.

Johann Theodor Mosewius

(1889–1893). Die Melodien der deutschen evangelischen Kirchenlieder (in German). Vol. I – II – III – IV – V – VI. Gütersloh: Bertelsmann. {{cite book}}: External link in |volume= (help)

Zahn, Johannes

Lyon, James (2005). . Guides musicologiques (in French). Vol. 6. Paris: Beauchesne. ISBN 270101493X. ISSN 0246-3865.

Johann Sebastian Bach: Chorals

Papillon, André (2006). . Index of Chorale Melodies in the Works of Johann Sebastian Bach. Presses de l'Université Laval. pp. 133–142. ISBN 2763783511.

"4. 371 four-voice chorales"

Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta

"Other Vocal Works sorted Thematically"

"Index to Texts and Translations of Bach Cantatas and Other Vocal Works – Part 7: Chorales BWV 250–438"

: list at the International Music Score Library Project

Bach Chorale Listing

in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)

Free scores of Johann Sebastian Bach's Chorale Harmonizations

September 2006; retrieved 21 May 2009.

Thomas Braatz: "The History of the Breitkopf Collection of J. S. Bach's Four-Part Chorales"

in Capella format (in German, English, and Russian)

Scores

at www.bach-chorales.com

Sortable Index of the Chorales by J.S. Bach