There are over 1000 known compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach. Listed here are about half of these in the order of the BWV catalog, including the spurious works in the BWV Anhang ("Appendix"). The complementary pages listing the other known compositions by Bach according to the BWV system are:
BWV | Title |
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BWV 525 | Trio sonata in E-flat major |
BWV 526 | Trio sonata in C minor |
BWV 527 | Trio sonata in D minor |
BWV 528 | Trio sonata in E minor |
BWV 528a | Andante in D minor (alternative version of movement 2 from BWV 528) |
BWV 529 | Trio sonata in C major |
BWV 530 | Trio sonata in G major |
BWV | Title | Notes |
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BWV 531 | Prelude and Fugue in C major | |
BWV 532 | Prelude and Fugue in D major | |
BWV 532a | Fugue in D major | (alternative version of the fugue of BWV 532) |
BWV 533 | Prelude and Fugue in E minor | |
BWV 534 | Prelude and Fugue in F minor | |
BWV 535 | Prelude and Fugue in G minor | |
BWV 535a | Prelude and Fugue in G minor | (alternative version of BWV 535) |
BWV 536 | Prelude and Fugue in A major | |
BWV 536a | Prelude and Fugue in A major | (alternative version of BWV 536, possibly based on the original manuscript[1]) |
BWV 537 | Fantasia and Fugue in C minor | |
BWV 538 | Toccata and Fugue in D minor ("Dorian") | |
BWV 539 | Prelude and Fugue in D minor | |
BWV 539a | Fugue in D minor | (see BWV 1000 for the lute arrangement, movement 2 of BWV 1001 for the violin arrangement) |
BWV 540 | Toccata and Fugue in F major | |
BWV 541 | Prelude and Fugue in G major | |
BWV 542 | Fantasia and Fugue "Great" in G minor | |
BWV 542a | Fugue in G minor | (alternative version of the fugue from BWV 542) |
BWV 543 | Prelude and Fugue in A minor | |
BWV 544 | Prelude and Fugue in B minor | |
BWV 545 | Prelude and Fugue in C major | |
BWV 545a | Prelude and Fugue in C major | (alternative version of BWV 545) |
BWV 545b | Prelude, Trio and Fugue in B-flat major | (alternative version of BWV 545; the Trio is an arrangement of the finale of BWV 1029; some parts possibly by Johann Tobias Krebs) |
BWV 546 | Prelude and Fugue in C minor | |
BWV 547 | Prelude and Fugue in C major | |
BWV 548 | Prelude and Fugue in E minor "Wedge" | |
BWV 549 | Prelude and Fugue in C minor | |
BWV 550 | Prelude and Fugue in G major | |
BWV 551 | Prelude and Fugue in A minor | |
BWV 552 | Prelude and Fugue in E-flat major "St. Anne" | (published in Clavier-Übung III) |
BWV 553 | Eight Short Preludes and Fugues: Prelude and Fugue in C major | [2] |
BWV 554 | Eight Short Preludes and Fugues: Prelude and Fugue in D minor | [2] |
BWV 555 | Eight Short Preludes and Fugues: Prelude and Fugue in E minor | [2] |
BWV 556 | Eight Short Preludes and Fugues: Prelude and Fugue in F major | [2] |
BWV 557 | Eight Short Preludes and Fugues: Prelude and Fugue in G major | [2] |
BWV 558 | Eight Short Preludes and Fugues: Prelude and Fugue in G minor | [2] |
BWV 559 | Eight Short Preludes and Fugues: Prelude and Fugue in A minor | [2] |
BWV 560 | Prelude and Fugue in B-flat major | |
BWV 561 | Fantasia and Fugue in A minor | (spurious, possibly by Johann Christian Kittel[3]) |
BWV 562 | Fantasia and Fugue in C minor | (fugue unfinished) |
BWV 563 | Fantasia in B minor (Fantasia and Imitatio) | (spurious) |
BWV 564 | Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C major | |
BWV 565 | Toccata and Fugue in D minor | (disputed) |
BWV 566 | Toccata and Fugue in E major | |
BWV 566a | Toccata in E major | (earlier version of BWV 566) |
BWV 567 | Prelude in C major | (doubtful, possibly by Johann Ludwig Krebs[4]) |
BWV 568 | Prelude in G major | (doubtful[4]) |
BWV 569 | Prelude in A minor | |
BWV 570 | Fantasia in C major | |
BWV 571 | Fantasia (Concerto) in G major | (spurious) |
BWV 572 | Fantasia in G major | (Pièce d'Orgue) |
BWV 573 | Fantasia in C major | (incomplete, from the 1722 Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach) |
BWV 574 | Fugue in C minor | (on a theme of Legrenzi) |
BWV 574a | Fugue in C minor | (alternative version of BWV 574) |
BWV 574b | Fugue in C minor | (alternative version of BWV 574) |
BWV 575 | Fugue in C minor | |
BWV 576 | Fugue in G major | (doubtful[5]) |
BWV 577 | Fugue in G major à la Gigue | (doubtful[6]) |
BWV 578 | Fugue in G minor "Little" | |
BWV 579 | Fugue in B minor | (on a theme by Corelli, from Op. 3, No. 4) |
BWV 580 | Fugue in D major | (doubtful[7]) |
BWV 581 | Fugue in G major | (not by Bach, composed by Gottfried August Homilius) |
BWV 582 | Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor |
Prelude in C major, BWV 939, performed on a harpsichord, by Gérard Janot |
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Discovered 1985 in the archives of the Yale University library.
see Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach.
BWV Anh. 133-150 – pieces for musical clock possibly by W. F. Bach
Each reconstructed concerto is created after the harpsichord concerto for the presumed original instrument. Such reconstructions are commonly referred to as, for example, BWV 1052R (where the R stands for 'reconstructed').