List of songs and arias by Johann Sebastian Bach

Songs and arias by Johann Sebastian Bach are compositions listed in Chapter 6 of the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (BWV 439–524), which also includes the Quodlibet.[1] Most of the songs and arias included in this list are set for voice and continuo. Most of them are also spiritual, i.e. hymn settings, although a few have a worldly theme. The best known of these, "Bist du bei mir", was however not composed by Bach.

An aria by Bach was rediscovered in the 21st century, and was assigned the number BWV 1127.[2] Further hymn settings and arias by Bach are included in his cantatas, motets, masses, passions, oratorios and chorale harmonisations (BWV 1–438 and later additions). The second Anhang of the BWV catalogue also lists a few songs of doubtful authenticity.

Sacred songs and arias from Schemellis Songbook (BWV 439–507)

Title page of Georg Christian Schemelli's 1736 Songbook, containing 69 melodies for which Bach provided a melody and/or (improved) accompaniment

The hymnal published 1736 in Leipzig by Georg Christian Schemelli contained 954 hymns;[3] 69 of these, listed here, were accompanied by a melody and a figured bass.

Songs and arias from the second Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach (BWV 508–518)

Five hymns from a manuscript by Johann Ludwig Krebs (BWV 519–523)

Fünf geistliche Lieder are five hymns as collected by Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713–1780) and published by Breitkopf & Härtel in 1917.

Quodlibet (BWV 524)

Added to the BWV catalogue in the 21st century (BWV 1127)

Doubtful works from BWV Anh. II (BWV Anh. 32–41)

BWV Anh. II lists eight songs in Christian Hofmann von Hofmannswaldau's Deutsche Übersetzungen und Gedichte and two in Sperontes' Singende Muse an der Pleiße as possibly composed by Bach.

From Deutsche Übersetzungen und Gedichte

From Singende Muse an der Pleiße

Spurious work from BWV Anh. III (BWV Anh. 158)

Other BWV numbers referring to a single aria

In the church cantata range of BWV numbers (BWV 1–200):

References

  1. (BWV2a) Alfred Dürr, Yoshitake Kobayashi (eds.), Kirsten Beißwenger. Bach Werke Verzeichnis: Kleine Ausgabe, nach der von Wolfgang Schmieder vorgelegten 2. Ausgabe. Preface in English and German. Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1998. ISBN 3765102490 - ISBN 978-3765102493, pp. 304–310
  2. Bach Digital Work 1307 at www.bachdigital.de
  3. Georg Christian Schemelli, editor; Johann Sebastian Bach, composer and arranger. Musicalisches Gesang-Buch, darinnen 954 geistreiche, sowohl alte als neue Lieder und Arien, mit wohlgesetzten Melodien, in Discont und Baß, befindlich sind: Vornehmlich denen Evangelischen Gemeinen im Stifte, Naumburg-Zeitz gewidmet. Leipzig: Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf, 1736
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