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BWV 364, Johann Sebastian Bach's chorale harmonisation of the hymn Jesus Christus, unser Heiland, der den Tod überwand

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:

  • Around half of that number are chorales which were transmitted in the context of larger vocal works such as cantatas, motets, Passions and oratorios. A large part of these chorales are extant as autographs by the composer, and for nearly all of them a colla parte instrumental and/or continuo accompaniment are known.
  • All other four-part chorales exclusively survived in collections of short works, which include manuscripts and 18th-century prints. Apart from the Three Wedding Chorales collection (BWV 250–252), these are copies by other scribes and prints only published after the composer's death, lacking context information, such as instrumental accompaniment, for the individual harmonisations.

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

History

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The compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach that had been printed during his lifetime were nearly exclusively instrumental works. Moreover, by the time Bach died in 1750 it was forgotten that a few of his vocal works (BWV 71, BWV 439–507,...) had indeed been printed in the first half of the 18th century.[1] In the period between the publication of The Art of Fugue in the early 1750s, and the publication of further works from 1800, only one group of Bach's works was published: his four-part chorales.

The most complete 18th century publication of chorales by J. S. Bach is Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's edition in four volumes, published by Breitkopf from 1784 to 1787. About half of the chorale harmonisations in this collection have their origin in other extant works by Bach. This collection went through four more editions and countless reprintings until 1897. Several other collections of chorales by J. S. Bach were published, some of these using the original C-clefs or different texts.

The loss of musical material from Bach's death to the first printings of chorale collections may have been substantial. Not only are many works the chorales were extracted from no longer extant but there is no way of knowing how much of all the harmonisations that were once compiled the current collections include. For example, there is no way of knowing how many of the 150 harmonisations first proposed for sale in 1764 also appear in Princess Anna Amalia's manuscript which ultimately forms the basis of the Breitkopf edition. As to the chorale melodies with figured bass, current collections include less than one hundred of them whereas those proposed for sale in 1764 numbered 240.

The chorale harmonisations BWV 250–438 were probably all extracted from lost larger vocal works. For six of them the work they have been derived from has been identified. Bach's chorale harmonisations are all for a four-part choir (SATB), but Riemenschneider's and Terry's collections contain one 5-part SSATB choral harmonisation (Welt, ade! ich bin dein müde, Riemenscheider No. 150, Terry No. 365), not actually by Bach, but used by Bach as the concluding chorale to cantata Wer weiß, wie nahe mir mein Ende, BWV 27.

Some harmonisations exist in different keys, i.e. pitches, in 18th-century sources: for instance a Bach cantata autograph gives the four-part chorale in one key, and the same harmonisation is found in one or more of the early chorale compilations in a different key.

Manuscripts

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The first record of the existence and sale of groups of collected chorale harmonisations and chorale melodies with figured bass extracted from larger works by J.S. Bach is from 1764, fourteen years after Bach's death. In that year the firm Breitkopf und Sohn announced for sale manuscript copies of 150 chorale harmonisations and 240 chorale melodies with figured bass by J.S. Bach.

In 1777 Johann Kirnberger started an active letter campaign to induce Breitkopf to publish a complete set of chorale harmonisations. Kirnberger's letters emphasize his motivation to have the chorales printed in order to preserve them for the benefit of future generations. The manuscript to be used once belonged to C. P. E. Bach, who sold it through Kirnberger to Princess Anna Amalia of Prussia (for twelve louis d'or). It is presumed that this manuscript contained neither the text of the chorales nor any reference to the larger works from which the harmonisations had been taken. The manuscript's harmonisations extracted only the vocal parts and ignored the instrumental parts and the continuo, even though all of Bach's chorale settings included both instrumental parts and continuo. The instrumental parts were either independent, so called obbligato instrumental parts, or mostly doubled the vocal parts sometimes separating from it for a very few beats, and the continuo had its bass mostly double the vocal bass at the lower octave, but could also separate from it for a very few beats. Finally in some cases, for reasons unknown, whoever extracted the chorale from the larger work, changed the key of the setting.

"Y" manuscript hypothesis
Hypothetical early autograph collection of chorale harmonisations from which Bach would have selected settings he later integrated into his larger vocal works.
Larger vocal works manuscripts
Mostly extant as autograph score and/or as parts written out under Bach's supervision: many of these works, such as cantatas and Passions, include four-part chorales
Three Wedding Chorales autograph
Bach's autograph of the wedding chorales BWV 250–252, written between 1734 and 1738.[2]
Dietel manuscript, a.k.a. Dietel Collection and, in German, Choralsammlung Dietel
Earliest of the extant larger collection of chorale harmonisations manuscripts. It contains 149 chorale harmonisations (not 150 as is written on its title page) and originated around 1735. The music in the manuscript was copied by Johann Ludwig Dietel, one of Bach's pupils from the Thomasschule.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9]

Printed editions

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A few chorale harmonisations had been published before Bach adopted them into his larger vocal works, and are therefore listed as spurious in the third annex of the BWV catalogue:[10][11]

Several more harmonisations stay close to the version published by Vopelius: for example "Christus, der ist mein Leben", BWV 281, is a variant of the harmonisation found in the Neu Leipziger Gesangbuch, with added embellishments and the harmonic structure altered for one of the tune's four phrases.[16]

Printed collections of Bach's harmonisations usually provide an alphabetical collation of the chorales, that is, ranged alphabetically by text incipit of the hymn. Some editions contain an alphabetical index at the end of the compilation, for instance at the end of the final volume of C. P. E. Bach's 18th-century collection. Other editions, such as the Breitkopf compilations of 1892 and 1899, present the chorales themselves in alphabetical order. However, not all of these alphabetical collations result in analogous chorale sequences. Some major differences in this respect result from chorales that are known by different names: in that case it depends on the editor which name is used for the collation. For example, the melody of "Ach, lieben Christen, seid getrost" also being known as "Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns hält" it is an editor's discretion whether BWV 256 is found early on[17] or near the end[18] of an alphabetically sorted collection.

18th century

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Some of Bach's voice and thoroughbass settings published in Georg Christian Schemelli's 1736 Musicalisches Gesang-Buch are better known in their four-part realisation included in the chorale harmonisation collections.

Chorales published by Birnstiel (200)
In 1765 F. W. Birnstiel published 100 chorales in Berlin. The edition had been initiated by F. W. Marpurg and completed, edited and supplemented with a preface and a list of errata by C. P. E. Bach. A second volume of 100 was issued by the same publisher in 1769, edited by J. F. Agricola. C. P. E. Bach criticised this publication as being full of mistakes in an article which was published in Hamburg in the Staats- und Gelehrte Zeitung des Hamburgischen unpartheyeschen Correspondenten on 30 May 1769, in which he also claimed that some of the chorale harmonisations included in the volume had not been composed by his father.
C. P. E. Bach's edition for Breitkopf (371)
After Kirnberger died in 1783, C. P. E. Bach became Breitkopf's editor for the chorales, which he then published in four parts:
  • Vol. I (1784): Nos. 1–96
  • Vol. II (1785): Nos. 97–194
  • Vol. III (1786): Nos. 195–283
  • Vol. IV (1787): Nos. 283–370
Since the number 283 was used twice (last number of Vol. III and first number of Vol. IV), the collection actually contained 371 items. The collection also contained several doubles (e.g. No. 156 is identical to No. 307): it totalled 348 independent harmonisations.[19]

19th century

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C. P. E. Bach's selection of 371 chorale harmonisations was republished a few times in the 19th century, for instance by Carl Ferdinand Becker in 1832 (third edition),[20] and by Alfred Dörffel in 1870.

Bach Gesellschaft (larger vocal works + 3 + 185)
The Bach-Gesellschaft Ausgabe (BGA, Bach Gesellschaft edition) kept the chorale settings that were part of a larger vocal work (cantata, motet, Passion or oratorio) together with these larger vocal works and added the Three Wedding Chorales to its 13th volume containing wedding cantatas. The remaining separate four-part chorales, purged from doubles, were ordered alphabetically and numbered from 1 to 185 in the 39th volume which was published in 1892.[17]
Richter's edition for Breitkopf (389)
In the late 19th century Bernhard Friedrich Richter collected all straightforward chorale harmonisations that had appeared in the BGA edition —including as well the separate ones as those from larger vocal works—, added a "Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir" harmonisation from a variant version of Cantata 130, and numbered all of these chorales in alphabetical order. The set contained a few doubtful and spurious settings (e.g. from Telemann cantatas which at the time were still attributed to Bach), but four-part settings which were part of a more complex texture (e.g. the fifth movement of Cantata 22 where the vocal homophony is supplemented by instrumental figuration) were not always included by Richter. The set was published by Breitkopf as Joh. Seb. Bach: 389 Choral-Gesänge für gemischten Chor in 1899.[18]

20th century

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The Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis, published in 1950, did not assign a separate BWV number to harmonisations contained in extant larger vocal works such as cantatas and Passions. The Three Wedding Chorales were assigned the numbers 250 to 252, and the 185 (+1: see below) four-part chorales contained in Vol. 39 of the BGA edition were given, in the same order, the numbers 253 to 438.[21]

Terry (405)
Published in 1929, Charles Sanford Terry's J. S. Bach's Four-Part Chorales contains 405 chorale harmonisations and 95 melodies with figured bass. The collection was reprinted 1964, with a foreword by Walter Emery.[22]
Riemenschneider (371)
Albert Riemenschneider's collection of 371 chorales was published in 1941. It contained the same 371 settings as the C. P. E. Bach edition for Breitkopf, but with a few differences in the collation. In some cases Riemenschneider restored some information about obbligato instrumental parts based on extant larger works, e.g. his No. 270 from cantata BWV 161, or about the continuo bass line if this does not exactly coincide with the vocal bass, e.g. his No. 29 from cantata BWV 32 and his No. 35 from the Christmas Oratorio. Riemenschneider did however not restore original keys to the extant larger works, but instead kept the chorales in the keys as they had been published in the Breitkopf collection, e.g. his No. 22, in E-flat major, comes from cantata BWV 180 where it is in F major. At times the key signature in Riemenschneider's edition does not correspond to the key,[clarification needed] for instance No. 19, in G minor but written with a "Dorian" G key signature. This too is presumably[speculation?] reproduced from the Breitkopf edition, which would have followed a common 17th- and 18th-century practice.[23]
Editio Musica Budapest (388)
Editio Musica Budapest (EMB) published Imre Sulyok's edition of 388 chorale harmonisations in 1982. With a few differences (e.g. a de-doubling of the near-identical BWV 253 and 414, and some differences in the collation) the collection is largely comparable to the Richter edition.[24]
Kalmus (389)
Kalmus republished the 389 chorales of Richter's collection.[25]
NBA
The New Bach Edition published the Three Wedding Chorales and the four-part chorales contained in the Dietel collection in 1991 (Series III, Vol. 2/1). The chorales from C. P. E. Bach's collection were published in 1996 (Series III, Vol. 2/2). Vol. 3 of the same series, published in 2002, contains a few chorales of doubtful authenticity found in other manuscripts and early editions. Vol. 9 of the second series, published in 2000, contains a few doubtful chorales found in various Passions. Better known chorale harmonisations are also contained in other volumes of series I (cantatas), II (Passions and oratorios) and V (e.g. BWV 299 as contained in the Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach).

21st century

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Czarnecki (413)
Christopher Czarnecki (editor). J.S. Bach 413 Chorales. SeeZar Publications, 2014. ISBN 0989087913
Dahn (420)
Luke Dahn (editor). J.S. Bach Chorales: a new critical and complete edition arranged by BWV catalogue number with text and historical contextual information included for each chorale with numerous indices included in the appendix. LuxSitPress, 2017.

Chorale harmonisations in various collections

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Most of Bach's known chorale harmonisations are movements in his extant cantatas, motets, Passions and oratorios. These are compositions which have a BWV number ranging from 1 to 249. BWV 250 to 438 is the range of the separate four-part chorales. Chorale harmonisations with a number above 438 are mostly later additions to the BWV catalogue. The 5th chapter of the 1998 edition of the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (BWV2a) contains the chorales BWV 250–438, and some later additions (BWV 500a, 1084, 1089 and 1122–1126).[26]

Numbering conventions

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All BWV numbers used in the listings below are according to the latest version of the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis and further updates of these numbers found at the Bach Digital website. When a BWV number is followed by a slash ("/"), the number or letter after that slash indicates the movement in the composition.

Settings from Schemellis Gesangbuch are indicated by their BWV number (BWV 439–507), by the number of the hymn in the original publication (Nos. 1–954),[27] and, between brackets, the number of the setting in Vol. 39 of the BGA edition (1–69).[28]

A cross-reference between Lutheran hymns, their Zahn number,[29] and their appearance in compositions by Bach (including, but not limited to, the chorale harmonisations) can be found pp. 471–481 of BWV2a.[30]

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1 Chorale text Text incipit of the harmonised hymn. Information regarding which part of the hymn Bach used is given in parentheses, typically verse numbers indicated by "v." Hymn titles without such information as in (untexted) chorale harmonisation collections.
2 Zahn Zahn number of the chorale melody. When the data in the Zahn column starts with N that refers to "Nachtrag von vier Melodien" (supplement of four melodies), pp. 566–568 in Zahn's 1893 last volume: the number after the slash refers to the place of the melody in this sequence of four.[29]
3 BWV
Sorted by BWV number, the table has these subdivisions:
4 389 Number of the chorale setting in Richter's 19th-century compilation of chorale harmonisations. These are also known as Kalmus numbers while that publisher reissued Richter's compilation of 389 chorales. Richter/Kalmus Nos. 130, 219 and 387 are not included in the table: see "In church cantatas" section below.
5 CPE Numbers as in C. P. E. Bach's 18th-century publication of his father's chorales. The two No. 283 chorales are distinguished as "283" for the one included in Vol. III, and "283bis" for the one included in Vol. IV.
6 Rie. Numbers as in Riemenschneider's 1941 publication of the chorales.
7 Notes External links in this column go to chorale pages at Luke Dahn's bach-chorales.com website.
8 BC F

In larger vocal works

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More than 200 of Bach's over 400 homophonic chorale harmonisations survived in his larger vocal works.

In church cantatas

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Four-part chorales also appearing as cantata movements composed by Johann Sebastian Bach (verse incipits, and their translations by Pamela Dellal, from the Emmanuel Music website unless otherwise indicated):[35] BWV 1/6: "Wie bin ich doch so herzlich froh" ("How happy I am", v. 7 of "Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern") • 2/6: "Das wollst du, Gott, bewahren rein" ("This, God, you would keep pure", v. 6 of Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein") • 3/6: "Erhalt mein Herz im Glauben rein" ("If my heart remains pure in faith", v. 18 of "Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid") • 4/8 • 5/7 • 6/6 • 7/7 • 9/7 • 10/7 • 12/7 • 13/6 • 14/5 • 16/6 • 17/7 • 18/5 • 19/7 • 20/7=/11 • 22/5 • 24/6 • 25/6 • 26/6 • 28/6 • 29/8 • 30/6 • 31/9 • 32/6 • 33/6 • 36/4 and /8 • 37/6 • 38/6 • 39/7 • 40/3, /6 and /8 • 41/6 • 42/7 • 44/7 • 45/7 • 46/6 • 47/5 • 48/3 and /7 • 52/6 • 55/5 • 56/5 • 57/8 • 59/3 • 60/5 • 62/6 64. • 64/2, /4 and /8 • 65/2 and /7 • 66/6 • 67/4 and /7 • 69/6 • 69a/6 • 70/7 and /11 • 72/6 • 73/5 • 74/8 • 75/7=/14 • 76/7=/14 • 77/6 • 78/7 79. • 79/3 and /6 • 80/8 • 81/7 • 83/5 • 84/5 • 85/6 • 86/6 • 87/7 • 88/7 • 89/6 • 90/5 • 91/6 • 92/9 • 93/7 • 94/8 • 95/1 (extract: 282) and /7 • 96/6 • 97/9 • 99/6 • 100/6 • 101/7 • 102/7 • 103/6 • 104/6 • 105/6 • 107/7 • 108/6 • 110/7 • 111/6 • 112/5 • 113/1 and /8 • 114/7 • 115/6 • 116/6 • 117/4=/9 • 119/9 • 120/6 • 120a/8 • 121/6 • 122/6 • 123/6 • 124/6 • 125/6 • 126/6 • 127/5 • 128/5 • 129/5 • 130/6 • 133/6 • 135/6 • 136/6 • 137/5 • 139/6 • 140/7 • 144/3 and /6 • 145/a and /5 • 146/8 • 147/6=/10 • 148/6 • 149/7 • 151/5 153. • 153/1, /5 and /9 • 154/3 and /8 • 155/5 • 156/6 • 157/5 • 158/4 • 159/5 • 161/6 • 162/6 • 164/6 • 165/6 • 166/6 • 167/5 • 168/6 • 169/7 • 171/6 • 172/6 • 174/5 • 175/7 • 176/6 • 177/5 • 178/7 • 179/6 • 180/7 • 183/5 • 184/5 • 185/6 • 187/7 • 188/6 • 190/7 • 194/6 and /12 • 195/6 • 197/5 and /10 • 197a/7 (≈398)

Spurious chorale harmonisations in Bach's autographs: BWV 8/6 • 27/6 (=Anh. 170) • 43/11

Chorale harmonisations from spurious or doubtful cantatas (or: cantata versions) in the Richter/Kalmus collection of 389 chorale harmonisations: No. 130: BWV Anh. 31: "Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir" [scores] from a doubtful version of BWV 130[36] • No. 219: BWV 218/5 = TWV 1:634/5: "Komm, Gott Schöpfer, Heiliger Geist", by Telemann • No. 387: BWV 219/5 = TWV 1:1328/5: "Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns hält", by Telemann

In motets

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Chorale harmonisations appearing in Bach's motets: BWV 226/2 • 227/1=/11, /3 (SSATB) and /7 • 229/2

In Passions

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In St Matthew Passion
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Four-part chorales appearing in the St Matthew Passion: BWV 244/3, /10, /15≈/17, /25, /32, /37, /40, /44, /46, /54 and /62 • 244b/29

In St John Passion
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Four-part chorales appearing in the St John Passion: BWV 245/3, /5 (=BWV 416), /11, /14, /15, /17, /22, /26, /28, /37 and /40

In St Mark Passion pasticcio
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For his own performances of the Jesus Christus ist um unsrer Missetat willen verwundet Passion Bach composed and/or reworked a few of its chorales: No. 9b: "So gehst du nun, mein Jesu" (BWV 500a)[37] • No. 14: "O hilf Christe, Gottes Sohn" (BWV 1084)[38] • No. 29: "O Traurigkeit, o Herzeleid" (BWV deest)[39]

In oratorios

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Ascension Oratorio
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Four-part chorale appearing in the Ascension Oratorio: BWV 11/6

Christmas Oratorio
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Four-part chorales in Bach's Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248: Part I/5 and /9 • II/3, /8 and /14 • III/5, /10 and /12 • IV/7 • V/4 and /11 • VI/6 and /11

In chorale collections

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Somewhat less than 200 of Bach's chorale harmonisations only survived in early collections containing multiple, usually short, works.

Three Wedding Chorales, BWV 250–252

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Three wedding chorales grouped in an autograph manuscript by Bach:
  1. BWV 250: "Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan"
  2. BWV 251: "Sei Lob und Ehr dem höchsten Gut"
  3. BWV 252: "Nun danket alle Gott"

186 four-part chorales in BGA Vol. 39, BWV 253–438

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The Bach Gesellschaft published 185 four-part chorales in the 39th volume of its complete Bach-edition. The BWV 253–438 range, which, in its original collation, was based on the BGA publication does however contain 186 chorales. The difference is that BWV 279, (near-)identical to BWV 158/4, was not retained in the BGA set:

  • 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
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1 BWV Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (lit. 'Bach-works-catalogue'; BWV) numbers. Anhang (Annex; Anh.) numbers are indicated as follows:
  • preceded by I: in Anh. I (lost works) of BWV1 (1950 first edition of the BWV)
  • preceded by II: in Anh. II (doubtful works) of BWV1
  • preceded by III: in Anh. III (spurious works) of BWV1
  • preceded by N: new Anh. numbers in BWV2 (1990) and/or BWV2a (1998)
2 2a Section in which the composition appears in BWV2a:
  • Chapters of the main catalogue indicated by Arabic numerals (1-13)
  • Anh. sections indicated by Roman numerals (I–III)
  • Reconstructions published in the NBE indicated by "R"
3 Date Date associated with the completion of the listed version of the composition. Exact dates (e.g. for most cantatas) usually indicate the assumed date of first (public) performance. When the date is followed by an abbreviation in brackets (e.g. JSB for Johann Sebastian Bach) it indicates the date of that person's involvement with the composition as composer, scribe or publisher.
4 Name Name of the composition: if the composition is known by a German incipit, that German name is preceded by the composition type (e.g. cantata, chorale prelude, motet, ...)
5 Key Key of the composition
6 Scoring See scoring table below for the abbreviations used in this column
7 BG Bach Gesellschaft-Ausgabe (BG edition; BGA): numbers before the colon indicate the volume in that edition. After the colon an Arabic numeral indicates the page number where the score of the composition begins, while a Roman numeral indicates a description of the composition in the Vorwort (Preface) of the volume.[40]
8 NBE New Bach Edition (German: Neue Bach-Ausgabe, NBA): Roman numerals for the series, followed by a slash, and the volume number in Arabic numerals. A page number, after a colon, refers to the "Score" part of the volume. Without such page number, the composition is only described in the "Critical Commentary" part of the volume. The volumes group Bach's compositions by genre:[41]
  1. Cantatas (Vol. 1–34: church cantatas grouped by occasion; Vol. 35–40: secular cantatas; Vol. 41: Varia)
  2. Masses, Passions, Oratorios (12 volumes)
  3. Motets, Chorales, Lieder (4 volumes)
  4. Organ Works (11 volumes)
  5. Keyboard and Lute Works (14 volumes)
  6. Chamber Music (5 volumes)
  7. Orchestral Works (7 volumes)
  8. Canons, Musical Offering, Art of Fugue (3 volumes)
  9. Addenda (approximately 7 volumes)
9 Additional info may include:
  • "after" – indicating a model for the composition
  • "by" – indicating the composer of the composition (if different from Johann Sebastian Bach)
  • "in" – indicating the oldest known source for the composition
  • "pasticcio" – indicating a composition with parts of different origin
  • "see" – composition renumbered in a later edition of the BWV
  • "text" – by text author, or, in source

Provenance of standard texts and tunes, such as Lutheran hymns and their chorale melodies, Latin liturgical texts (e.g. Magnificat) and common tunes (e.g. Folia), are not usually indicated in this column. For an overview of such resources used by Bach, see individual composition articles, and overviews in, e.g., Chorale cantata (Bach)#Bach's chorale cantatas, List of chorale harmonisations by Johann Sebastian Bach#Chorale harmonisations in various collections and List of organ compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach#Chorale Preludes.

10 BD Bach Digital Work page
Legend for abbreviations in "Scoring" column
Voices (see also SATB)
a A b B s S t T v V
alto (solo part) alto (choir part) bass (solo part) bass (choir part) soprano (solo part) soprano (choir part) tenor (solo part) tenor (choir part) voice (includes parts for unspecified voices or instruments as in some canons) vocal music for unspecified voice type
Winds and battery (bold = soloist)
Bas Bel Cnt Fl Hn Ob Oba Odc Tai Tbn Tdt Tmp Tr
bassoon (can be part of Bc, see below) bell(s) (musical bells) cornett, cornettino flute (traverso, flauto dolce, piccolo, flauto basso) natural horn, corno da caccia, corno da tirarsi, lituo oboe oboe d'amore oboe da caccia taille trombone tromba da tirarsi timpani tromba (natural trumpet, clarino trumpet)
Strings and keyboard (bold = soloist)
Bc Hc Kb Lu Lw Org Str Va Vc Vdg Vl Vne
basso continuo: Vdg, Hc, Vc, Bas, Org, Vne and/or Lu harpsichord keyboard (Hc, Lw, Org or clavichord) lute, theorbo Lautenwerck (lute-harpsichord) organ (/man. = manualiter, without pedals) strings: Vl I, Vl II and Va viola(s), viola d'amore, violetta violoncello, violoncello piccolo viola da gamba violin(s), violino piccolo violone, violone grosso
186 four-part chorales in BGA Vol. 39, BWV 253–438
BWV 2a Date Name Key Scoring BG NBE Additional info BD
253 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Ach bleib bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ" A maj. SATB 39: 177 III/2.2: 101 after Z 439; text by Calvisius; ↔ BWV 414 00323
254 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Ach Gott, erhör mein Seufzen" D Dor. SATB 39: 177 III/2.2: 105 after Z 1831a; text by Schechs [wikisource:de] 00324
255 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Ach Gott und Herr" C maj. SATB 39: 178 III/2.2: 24 after Z 4441a; text by Rutilius [de] 00325
256 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Ach lieben Christen, seid getrost" A min. SATB 39: 178 III/2.2: 19 after Z 4441a; text by Gigas 00326
259 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Ach, was soll ich Sünder machen" E min. SATB 39: 179 III/2.2: 23 after Z 3573b; text by Flittner [de] 00329
260 5. c. 1735 or earlier chorale setting "Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr" G maj. SATB 39: 180 III/2.1: 9
III/2.2: 147		 after Z 4457; text by Decius after Gloria 00330
261 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ" B min. SATB 39: 180 III/2.2: 206 after Z 7292b; text by Hubert 00331
262 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Alle Menschen müssen sterben" D maj. SATB 39: 181 III/2.2: 88 after Pachelbel; text by Albinus, Rosenmüller 00332
263 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Alles ist an Gottes Segen" G maj. SATB 39: 181 III/2.2: 72 after Z 3842f 00333
264 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Als der gütige Gott" G maj. SATB 39: 182 III/2.2: 91 after Z 1646; text by Weiße 00334
265 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Als Jesus Christus in der Nacht" D Dor. SATB 39: 182 III/2.2: 102 after Z 258; text by Heermann 00335
266 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Als vierzig Tag nach Ostern warn" E min. SATB 39: 182 III/2.2: 120 after Z 1743; text by Herman 00336
267 5. c. 1735 or earlier chorale setting "An Wasserflüssen Babylon" G maj. SATB 39: 183 III/2.2: 4 after Z 7663; text by Dachstein 00337
A♭ Maj. III/2.1: 98
chorale setting "Ein Lämmlein geht und trägt G maj. 39: 183 after Z 7663; text by Gerhardt
A♭ Maj. III/2.2: 180
268 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Auf, auf, mein Herz" G maj. SATB 39: 184 III/2.2: 70 after Z 824; text by Birken 00338
269 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Aus meines Herzens Grunde" G maj. SATB 39: 184 III/2.2: 2 after Z 5269; text by Niege [de] 00339
270 5. c. 1735 or earlier chorale setting "Befiehl du deine Wege" B min. SATB 39: 185 III/2.1: 47
III/2.2: 170		 after Z 5385a; text by Gerhardt 00340
271 5. c. 1735 or earlier chorale setting "Befiehl du deine Wege" B min. SATB 39: 185 III/2.1: 97
III/2.2: 210		 after Z 5385a; text by Gerhardt 00341
272 5. 1730–1761 chorale setting "Befiehl du deine Wege" D min. SATB 39: 186 III/2.2: 196 by Bach, C. P. E.?; after Z 5393; text by Gerhardt 00342
273 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Christ, der du bist der helle Tag" G min. SATB 39: 186 III/2.2: 136 after Z 384; text by Alberus 00343
274 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Christe, der du bist Tag und Licht" G min. SATB 39: 187 III/2.2: 145 after Z 343; text by Musculus after "Christe qui lux es" 00344
275 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Christe, du Beistand" D Dor. SATB 39: 187 III/2.2: 122 after Z 993; text by Löwenstern 00345
276 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Christ ist erstanden" D Dor. SATB 39: 188 III/2.2: 110 after Z 8584; text: "Christ ist erstanden" 00346
277 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Christ lag in Todesbanden" D Dor. SATB 39: 189 III/2.2: 11 after Z 7012a; text by Luther 00347
278 5. c. 1735 or earlier chorale setting "Christ lag in Todesbanden" E min. SATB 39: 190 III/2.1: 92
III/2.2: 212		 after Z 7012a; text by Luther 00348
279 5. c. 1725–1735 chorale setting "Christ lag in Todesbanden" E min. SATB 32: 154 III/2.1: 24
III/2.2: 155		 after Z 7012a; text by Luther; ↔ BWV 158/4 00349
280 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam" D Dor. SATB 39: 190 III/2.2: 36 after Z 7246; text by Luther 00350
281 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Christus, der ist mein Leben" F maj. SATB 39: 191 III/2.2: 6 after Z 132, Neu Leipziger GB, p 942[42] 00351
282 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Christus, der ist mein Leben" G maj. SATB 39: 191 III/2.2: 184 after BWV 95/1 00352
283 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Christus, der uns selig macht" A min. SATB 39: 192 III/2.2: 112 after Z 6283a; text by Weiße after "Patris sapientia" 00353
284 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Christus ist erstanden, hat überwunden" C maj. SATB 39: 192 III/2.2: 113 after Z 6240b; text by Weiße 00354
285 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Da der Herr Christ zu Tische saß" C min. SATB 39: 193 III/2.2: 110 after Z 2503; text by Herman 00355
286 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Danket dem Herrn, denn er ist" A min. SATB 39: 193 III/2.2: 134 after Z 12; text by Horn [de] 00356
287 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Dank sei Gott in der Höhe" F maj. SATB 39: 194 III/2.2: 182 after Z 5391; text by Mühlmann [de] 00357
288 5. c. 1735 or earlier chorale setting "Das alte Jahr vergangen ist" D Dor. SATB 39: 194 III/2.1: 11
III/2.2: 93		 after Z 381; text by Steuerlein [de] 00358
289 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Das alte Jahr vergangen ist" E min. SATB 39: 194 III/2.2: 183 after Z 381; text by Steuerlein [de] 00359
290 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Das walt Gott Vater und Gott Sohn" F maj. SATB 39: 195 III/2.2: 132 after Z 673; text by Behm 00360
291 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Das walt mein Gott" D min. SATB 39: 195 III/2.2: 42 after Z 4217; text by Förtsch [wikisource:de]? 00361
292 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Den Vater dort oben" C maj. SATB 39: 196 III/2.2: 141 after Z 4795; text by Weiße 00362
293 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Der du bist drei in Einigkeit" D Dor. SATB 39: 196 III/2.2: 89 after Z 335e; text by Luther after "O lux beata Trinitas" 00363
294 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Der Tag, der ist so freudenreich" G maj. SATB 39: 197 III/2.2: 90 after Z 7870; text after "Dies est laetitiae" 00364
295 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Des Heilgen Geistes reiche Gnad" D min. SATB 39: 197 III/2.2: 120 after Z 370b; text by Gesius after "Spiritus Sancti gratia" 00365
296 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Die Nacht ist kommen" G Mix. SATB 39: 198 III/2.2: 136 after Z 5001; text by Herbert [de] 00366
297 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Die Sonn hat sich mit ihrem Glanz gewendet" D Dor. SATB 39: 198 III/2.2: 137 after Z 923; text by Stegmann [de]; ↔ BWV 447 00367
298 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Dies sind die heilgen zehn Gebot" C maj. SATB 39: 198 III/2.2: 72 after Z 1951; text by Luther 00368
299 [2] 5. 1725–1735 chorale setting "Dir, dir, Jehova, will ich singen" B♭ maj. SATB 39: 199 III/2.1: 11
III/2.2: 121		 ↔ Z 3068; text by Crasselius; → BWV 452 00369
299 [1] Notebook A. M. Bach (1725) No. 39: chorale setting "Dir, dir, Jehova, will ich singen" S(AT)B (V Bc) 432: 50 V/4: 126 11543
300 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Du großer Schmerzensmann" E min. SATB 39: 199 III/2.2: 94 after Z 5159a; text by Thebesius [de] 00370
301 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Du, o schönes Weltgebäude" D min. SATB 39: 200 III/2.2: 80 after Z 6773; text by Franck, J. 00371
302 5. c. 1735 or earlier chorale setting "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" D maj. SATB 39: 200 III/2.1: 48
III/2.2: 14		 after Z 7377; text by Luther after Ps. 46 00372
303 5. c. 1735 or earlier chorale setting "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" D maj. SATB 39: 201 III/2.1: 10
III/2.2: 148		 after Z 7377; text by Luther after Ps. 46 00373
304 5. c. 1735 or earlier chorale setting "Eins ist not, ach Herr, dies Eine" D maj. SATB 39: 201 III/2.1: 36
III/2.2: 166		 after Z 7127; text by Schröder 00374
305 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Erbarm dich mein, o Herre Gott" A min. SATB 39: 202 III/2.2: 20 after Z 5851; text by Hegenwald after Ps. 51 00375
306 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Erstanden ist der heilig Christ" F maj. SATB 39: 202 III/2.2: 100 after Z 288; text after "Surrexit Christus hodie" 00376
307 5. c. 1735 or earlier chorale setting "Es ist gewisslich an der Zeit" B♭ maj. SATB 39: 203 III/2.1: 22
III/2.2: 155		 after Z 4429a; text by Ringwaldt 00377
308 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Es spricht der Unweisen Mund wohl" B♭ maj. SATB 39: 204 III/2.2: 17 after Z 4436; text by Luther after Ps. 14 00378
309 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Es stehn vor Gottes Throne" G Dor. SATB 39: 204 III/2.2: 95 after Z 4298; text by Helmbold 00379
310 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Es wird schier der letzte Tag herkommen" E min. SATB 39: 205 III/2.2: 140 after Z 1423; text by Weiße 00380
311 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Es woll uns Gott gnädig sein" B min. SATB 39: 205 III/2.2: 12 after Z 7247; text by Luther after Ps. 67 00381
312 5. c. 1735 or earlier chorale setting "Es woll uns Gott gnädig sein" A min. SATB 39: 206 III/2.1: 70
III/2.2: 202		 after Z 7247; text by Luther after Ps. 67 00382
327 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Vor deinen Thron tret ich hiermit" D maj. SATB 39: 213 III/2.2: 193 after Z 368; text by Hodenberg? 00397
313 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Für Freuden lasst uns springen" G min. SATB 39: 206 III/2.2: 93 after Z 2339; text by Peltsch [fr] 00383
314 5. c. 1735 or earlier chorale setting "Gelobt seist du, Jesu Christ" D maj. SATB 39: 207 III/2.1: 48
III/2.2: 171		 after Z 1947; text by Luther 00384
315 5. c. 1735 or earlier chorale setting "Gib dich zufrieden und sei stille" E min. SATB 39: 207 III/2.1: 38
III/2.2: 161		 after BWV 511; text by Gerhardt; ↔ BWV 512, Z 7417a 00385
316 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Gott, der du selber bist das Licht" G min. SATB 39: 208 III/2.2: 133 after Z 5814; text by Rist 00386
317 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Gott der Vater wohn uns bei" D maj. SATB 39: 208 III/2.2: 78 after Z 8507; text by Luther 00387
318 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Gottes Sohn ist kommen" G maj. SATB 39: 209 III/2.2: 13 after Z 3294; text by Horn [de] 00388
F maj. III/2.2: 214
319 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Gott hat das Evangelium" E min. SATB 39: 209 III/2.2: 102 after Z 1788; text by Alberus 00389
320 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Gott lebet noch" F maj. SATB 39: 210 III/2.2: 138 after Z 7951; text by Zihn [de]; ↔ BWV 461 00390
321 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Gottlob, es geht nunmehr zum Ende" B♭ maj. SATB 39: 210 III/2.2: 108 after Z 2853; → Z 2855; text by Luther 00391
322 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Gott sei gelobet und gebenedeiet" C maj. SATB 39: 211 III/2.2: 39 after Z 8078; text by Luther 00392
323 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Gott sei uns gnädig und barmherzig" F♯ min. SATB 39: 212 III/2.2: 186 after German Magnificat; text after Ps. 67 00393
325 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Heilig, heilig, heilig" F maj. SATB 39: 212 III/2.2: 138 after Z 8633a; text after Sanctus; ↔ Z 8634 00395
chorale setting "Sanctus, Sanctus Dominus Deus" after Z 8633a; text: Sanctus; ↔ Z 8634
326 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir" B♭ maj. SATB 39: 213 III/2.2: 96 after Z 368; text by Eber 00396
328 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Herr Gott, dich loben wir" A min. SATB 39: 214 III/2.2: 117 after Z 8652; text by Luther after Te Deum 00398
329 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Herr, ich denk an jene Zeit" B♭ maj. SATB 39: 216 III/2.2: 123 after Z 4840; text by Mylius [de] 00399
330 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Herr, ich habe missgehandelt" A min. SATB 39: 216 III/2.2: 21 after Z 3695; text by Franck, J. 00400
331 5. c. 1735 or earlier chorale setting "Herr, ich habe missgehandelt" A min. SATB 39: 217 III/2.1: 47
III/2.2: 171		 after Z 3695; text by Franck, J. 00401
332 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend" G maj. SATB 39: 217 III/2.2: 79 after Z 624; text by William of Saxe-Weimar 00402
333 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Herr Jesu Christ, du hast bereit'" G min. SATB 39: 218 III/2.2: 133 after Z 4711; text by Kinner [de] 00403
334 5. c. 1735 or earlier chorale setting "Herr Jesu Christ, ich schrei zu dir" G min. SATB III/2.1: 43 after Z 4486 00404
chorale setting "Herr Jesu Christ, du höchstes Gut" 39: 218 III/2.2: 41 after Z 4486; text by Ringwaldt
335 5. c. 1735 or earlier chorale setting "Herr Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht" E min. SATB 39: 218 III/2.1: 60
III/2.2: 175		 after Z 423; text by Behm 00405
chorale setting "O Jesu, du mein Bräutigam" III/2.2: 139 after Z 423; text by Hermann
336 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Herr Jesu Christ, wahr' Mensch und Gott" A maj. SATB 39: 219 III/2.2: 106 after Z 423; text by Eber 00406
337 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Herr, nun lass in Friede" A min. SATB 39: 219 III/2.2: 107 after Z 3302; text by Behme [de] 00407
338 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Herr, straf mich nicht in deinem Zorn, das bitt" A min. SATB 39: 220 III/2.2: 131 after Z 4606a; text after Ps. 6[43] 00408
339 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Wer in dem Schutz des Höchsten ist" A maj. SATB 39: 220 III/2.2: 84 after Z 4438; text by Heyden 00409
chorale setting "Herr, wie du willt, so schicks mit mir" after Z 4438; text by Bienemann [de]
340 5. c. 1735 or earlier chorale setting "Herzlich lieb hab ich dich, o Herr" C maj. SATB 39: 221 III/2.1: 42
III/2.2: 164		 after Z 8326; text by Schalling 00410
341 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Heut ist, o Mensch, ein großer Trauertag" G Dor. SATB 39: 221 III/2.2: 96 after Z 8569/A; text by Löwenstern 00411
342 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Heut triumphieret Gottes Sohn" A min. SATB 39: 222 III/2.2: 44 after Z 2585; text by Stolzhagen [de] 00412
343 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Hilf, Gott, dass mirs gelinge" G Dor. SATB 39: 222 III/2.2: 112 after Z 4329f; text by Müller, H.[44] 00413
344 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Hilf, Herr Jesu, lass gelingen" G Dor. SATB 39: 223 III/2.2: 89 after Z 3687a; text by Rist 00414
345 5. c. 1735 or earlier chorale setting "Ich bin ja, Herr, in deiner Macht" G min. SATB 39: 223 III/2.1: 13
III/2.2: 148		 ↔ Z 5878a; text by Dach 00415
346 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Ich dank dir, Gott, für deine Wohltat" C maj. SATB 39: 224 III/2.2: 132 after Z 8090; text by Freder [de] 00416
347 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Ich dank dir, lieber Herre" A maj. SATB 39: 224 III/2.2: 2 after Z 5354a–b; text by Kolross 00417
348 5. c. 1735 or earlier chorale setting "Ich dank dir, lieber Herre" B♭ maj. SATB 39: 225 III/2.1: 39
III/2.2: 162		 after Z 5354a–b; text by Kolross 00418
349 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Ich dank dir schon durch deinen Sohn" F maj. SATB 39: 225 III/2.2: 106 after Z 247b; text by Burchart [de] 00419
350 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Ich danke dir, Herr Gott, in deinem Throne" G min. SATB 39: 226 III/2.2: 135 after Z 3199; text by Fabricius [de] 00420
351 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Ich hab mein Sach Gott heimgestellt" G Dor. SATB 39: 226 III/2.2: 13 after Z 1679; text by Leon [de] 00421
366 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Ihr Gestirn, ihr hohlen Lüfte" D min. SATB 39: 236 III/2.2: 92 after Z 3703; text by Franck, J. 00436
367 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "In allen meinen Taten" C maj. SATB 39: 236 III/2.2: 81 after Z 2276; text by Fleming[45] 00437
368 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "In dulci jubilo" F maj. SATB 39: 236 III/2.2: 83 after Z 4947 00438
352 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Jesu, der du meine Seele" A min. SATB 39: 227 III/2.2: 22 after Z 6804; text by Rist 00422
353 5. c. 1735 or earlier chorale setting "Jesu, der du meine Seele" G min. SATB 39: 228 III/2.1: 26
III/2.2: 160		 after Z 6804; text by Rist 00423
354 5. c. 1735 or earlier chorale setting "Jesu, der du meine Seele" B♭ Dor. SATB 39: 228 III/2.1: 99
III/2.2: 211		 after Z 6804; text by Rist 00424
355 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Jesu, der du selbsten wohl" A maj. SATB 39: 229 III/2.2: 97 after Z 6335; text by Bapzien [de] 00425
356 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Jesu, du mein liebstes Leben" G min. SATB 39: 230 III/2.2: 144 after Z 7891; text by Rist 00426
357 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Jesu, Jesu, du bist mein" C Dor. SATB 39: 230 III/2.2: 144 ↔ BWV 470, Z 6446 00427
358 5. c. 1735 or earlier chorale setting "Jesu, meine Freude" D min. SATB 39: 231 III/2.1: 80
III/2.2: 204		 after Z 8032; text by Franck, J. 00428
360 5. c. 1735 or earlier chorale setting "Jesu, meiner Seelen Wonne" B♭ maj. SATB 39: 232 III/2.1: 73
III/2.2: 201		 after Z 6551a; text by Janus 00430
359 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Jesu, meiner Seelen Wonne" A maj. SATB 39: 232 III/2.2: 209 after BWV 154/3; text by Janus 00429
361 5. c. 1735 or earlier chorale setting "Jesu, meines Herzens Freud" B♭ maj. SATB 39: 233 III/2.1: 34
III/2.2: 157		 after Z 4797–4798; text by Flittner [de] 00431
362 5. c. 1735 or earlier chorale setting "Jesu, nun sei gepreiset" B♭ maj. SATB 39: 234 III/2.1: 12
III/2.2: 149		 after Z 8477a; text by Hermann 00432
364 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Jesus Christus, unser Heiland, der den Tod überwand" G Dor. SATB 39: 235 III/2.2: 99 after Z 1978; text by Luther 00434
363 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Jesus Christus, unser Heiland, der von uns den Gottes Zorn wandt" E min. SATB 39: 234 III/2.2: 19 after Z 1576; text by Luther 00433
365 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Jesus, meine Zuversicht" C maj. SATB 39: 235 III/2.2: 100 after Z 3432b; text by Louise Henriette of N 00435
369 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Keinen hat Gott verlassen" E min. SATB 39: 237 III/2.2: 73 after Z 5395 00439
370 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Komm, Gott Schöpfer, Heiliger Geist" C maj. SATB 39: 238 III/2.2: 105 after Z 295; text by Luther 00440
371 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Kyrie, Gott Vater in Ewigkeit" A min. SATB 39: 238 III/2.2: 74 after Z 8600c 00441
372 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Lass, o Herr, dein Ohr sich neigen" G Dor. SATB 39: 240 III/2.2: 128 after Z 6863; text by Opitz 00442
373 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier" G maj. SATB 39: 240 III/2.2: 74, 190 after Z 3498b; text by Clausnitzer 00443
374 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Lobet den Herren, denn er ist sehr" G Dor. SATB 39: 241 III/2.2: 134 after Z 975; text after Ps. 147 00444
375 5. c. 1735 or earlier chorale setting "Lobt Gott, ihr Christen, allzugleich" G maj. SATB 39: 241 III/2.1: 45
III/2.2: 164		 after Z 198; text by Herman 00445
376 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Lobt Gott, ihr Christen allzugleich" A maj. SATB 39: 242 III/2.2: 197 after Z 198; text by Herman 00446
377 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Machs mit mir, Gott, nach deiner Güt" D maj. SATB 39: 242 III/2.2: 26 after Z 2383; text by Schein 00447
378 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Mein Augen schließ ich jetzt" G maj. SATB 39: 243 III/2.2: 153 after Z 1067; text by Löwenstern 00448
379 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Meinen Jesum lass ich nicht, Jesus" G maj. SATB 39: 243 III/2.2: 87 after Z 3448a 00449
380 5. c. 1735 or earlier chorale setting "Meinen Jesum lass ich nicht, weil" E♭ maj. SATB 39: 244 III/2.1: 62
III/2.2: 178		 after Z 3449; text by Keymann 00450
324 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Meine Seele erhebet den Herren" E min. SATB 39: 212 III/2.2: 73 after German Magnificat; text by Luther after Lk. 1:46–55 00394
381 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Meines Lebens letzte Zeit" E min. SATB 39: 244 III/2.2: 199 after Z 6380; ↔ BWV 488 00451
382 5. c. 1735 or earlier chorale setting "Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin" G Dor. SATB 39: 245 III/2.1: 40
III/2.2: 28		 after Z 3986; text by Luther 00452
383 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Mitten wir im Leben sind" A min. SATB 39: 246 III/2.2: 124 after Z 8502; text by Luther after Media vita 00453
384 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Nicht so traurig, nicht so sehr" C min. SATB 39: 247 III/2.2: 86 ↔ Z 3355; text by Gerhardt 00454
385 5. c. 1735 or earlier chorale setting "Nun bitten wir den Heiligen Geist" A maj. SATB 39: 247 III/2.1: 76
III/2.2: 22		 after Z 2029a; text by Luther 00455
386 5. c. 1735 or earlier chorale setting "Nun danket alle Gott" A maj. SATB 39: 248 III/2.1: 101
III/2.2: 20		 after Z 5142; text by Rinkart 00456
387 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Nun freut euch, Gottes Kinder all" D Dor. SATB 39: 248 III/2.2: 104 after Z 364; text by Alberus 00457
388 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Nun freut euch, lieben Christen gmein" G maj. SATB 39: 248 III/2.2: 103 after Z 4427; text by Luther 00458
389 5. c. 1735 or earlier chorale setting "Nun lob, mein Seel, den Herren" C maj. SATB 39: 249 III/2.1: 32
III/2.2: 159		 after Z 8244; text by Gramann after Ps. 103 00459
390 5. c. 1735 or earlier chorale setting "Nun lob, mein Seel, den Herren" C maj. SATB 39: 250 III/2.1: 58
III/2.2: 176		 after Z 8244; text by Gramann after Ps. 103 00460
391 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Nun preiset alle Gottes Barmherzigkeit" G maj. SATB 39: 250 III/2.2: 131 after Z 4089a; text by Löwenstern 00461
392 5. 1734–1750 chorale setting "Nun ruhen alle Wälder" B♭ maj. SATB 39: 251 III/2.2: 172 after BWV 97/9; text by Gerhardt 00462
396 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Nun sich der Tag geendet hat" A min. SATB 39: 252 III/2.2: 142 after Z 212b; text by Krieger 00466
397 5. c. 1735 or earlier chorale setting "O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort" F maj. SATB 39: 253 III/2.1: 23
III/2.2: 163		 after Z 5820; text by Johann Rist; ↔ BWV 513 00467
398 5. c. 1728–1729 chorale setting "O Gott, du frommer Gott" D maj. SATB 39: 254 III/2.2: 182 after Z 5206b; text by Heermann; ↔ BWV 197a/7 00468
399 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "O Gott, du frommer Gott" G maj. SATB 39: 254 III/2.2: 184 after Z 5148; text by Heermann 00469
400 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "O Herzensangst" E♭ maj. SATB 39: 255 III/2.2: 99 ↔ Z 1003; text by Müller von Königsberg 00470
401 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig" F maj. SATB 39: 255 III/2.2: 94 after Z 4361a; text by Decius after Agnus Dei 00471
402 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde groß" E♭ maj. SATB 39: 256 III/2.2: 114 after Z 8303; text by Heyden 00472
403 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "O Mensch, schau Jesum Christum an" G Dor. SATB 39: 257 III/2.2: 116 after Z 3994a–b; text by Specht; ↔ Z 3994c 00473
404 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "O Traurigkeit, o Herzeleid" A min. SATB 39: 257 III/2.2: 34 after Z 1915; text by Rist 00474
F min. III/2.2: 215
393 5. c. 1735 or earlier chorale setting "O Welt, sieh hier dein Leben" A maj. SATB 39: 251 III/2.1: 44
III/2.2: 163		 after Z 2293b; text by Gerhardt 00463
394 5. c. 1735 or earlier chorale setting "O Welt, sieh hier dein Leben" A maj. SATB 39: 252 III/2.1: 96
III/2.2: 210		 after Z 2293b; text by Gerhardt 00464
395 5. 1724–1750 chorale setting "O Welt, sieh hier dein Leben" A maj. SATB 39: 252 III/2.2: 208 after BWV 245/11; text by Gerhardt 00465
405 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "O wie selig seid ihr doch, ihr Frommen" D min. SATB 39: 258 III/2.2: 124 after Z 1583; text by Dach; ↔ BWV 495 00475
406 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "O wie selig seid ihr doch, ihr Frommen" D min. SATB 39: 258 III/2.2: 129 after Z 1581; text by Dach 00476
407 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "O wir armen Sünder" D maj. SATB 39: 258 III/2.2: 114 after Z 8187c; text by Bonnus [de] 00477
408 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Schaut, ihr Sünder" G Dor. SATB 39: 259 III/2.2: 98 after Z 8569/B; text by Löwenstern 00478
409 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Seelenbräutigam" A maj. SATB 39: 260 III/2.2: 82, 216 after Z 3255a–b; text by Drese; ↔ BWV 496 00479
410 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Sei gegrüßet, Jesu gütig" G min. SATB 39: 260 III/2.2: 98 after Z 3889b; text by Keymann; ↔ BWV 499 00480
411 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Singt dem Herrn ein neues Lied" G maj. SATB 39: 260 III/2.2: 146 after Z 6424; text by Löwenstern 00481
412 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "So gibst du nun, mein Jesu, gute Nacht" G Dor. SATB 39: 261 III/2.2: 119 after Z 849; text by Pfeiffer [de]; ↔ BWV 501 00482
413 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Sollt ich meinem Gott nicht singen" D min. SATB 39: 262 III/2.2: 130 after Z 7886b; text by Gerhardt; ↔ BWV 481 00483
414 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Uns ist ein Kindlein heut geborn" G maj. SATB 39: 262 III/2.2: 86 after Z 439; ↔ BWV 253 00484
415 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Valet will ich dir geben" D maj. SATB 39: 263 III/2.2: 16 after Z 5404a; text by Herberger 00485
416 5. 1724-04-07 chorale setting "Vater unser im Himmelreich" D min. SATB 39: 263 III/2.1: 94
III/2.2: 27		 after Z 2561; text by Luther after Mt 6:9–13; ↔ BWV 245.1/5 00486
417 5. c. 1735 or earlier chorale setting "Von Gott will ich nicht lassen" B min. SATB 39: 264 III/2.1: 92
III/2.2: 209		 after Z 5264b; text by Helmbold 00487
418 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Von Gott will ich nicht lassen" A min. SATB 39: 264 III/2.2: 192 after Z 5264b; text by Helmbold 00488
419 5. 1726–1761 (CPE) chorale setting "Helft mir Gotts Güte preisen" A min. SATB 39: 265 III/2.2: 64 by Bach, C. P. E.; after BWV 16/6; text by Eber 00489
chorale setting "Von Gott will ich nicht lassen" by Bach, C. P. E.; after BWV 16/6; text by Helmbold
257 5. c. 1735 or earlier chorale setting "Wär Gott nicht mit uns diese Zeit" A min. SATB 39: 178 III/2.1: 46
III/2.2: 170		 after Z 4441a; text by Luther after Ps. 124 00327
420 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Warum betrübst du dich, mein Herz" A min. SATB 39: 265 III/2.2: 84 after Z 1689a 00490
421 5. c. 1735 or earlier chorale setting "Warum betrübst du dich, mein Herz" A min. SATB 39: 266 III/2.1: 65
III/2.2: 178		 after Z 1689a; ↔ BWV 1164/2 00491
422 5. c. 1735 or earlier chorale setting "Warum sollt ich mich denn grämen" G Mix. SATB 39: 266 III/2.1: 82
III/2.2: 204		 after Z 6461; → Z 6462; text by Gerhardt 00492
423 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Was betrübst du dich, mein Herze" G Dor. SATB 39: 267 III/2.2: 140 ↔ Z 6830; text by Herrmann [wikisource:de] 00493
424 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Was bist du doch, o Seele, so betrübet" A min. SATB 39: 267 III/2.2: 108 after Z 1837; text by Schultt, R. F. [scores]; ↔ BWV 506 00494
425 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Was willst du dich, o meine Seele, kränken" A min. SATB 39: 268 III/2.2: 142 after Z 7844; text by Werder [de] 00495
426 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Weltlich Ehr und zeitlich Gut" C maj. SATB 39: 269 III/2.2: 122 after Z 4972; text by Weiße 00496
427 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Wenn ich in Angst und Not" E♭ maj. SATB 39: 269 III/2.2: 85 after Z 4233; text by Löwenstern 00497
428 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Wenn mein Stündlein verhanden ist" G maj. SATB 39: 270 III/2.2: 187 after Z 4482a; text by Herman 00498
429 5. c. 1735 or earlier chorale setting "Wenn mein Stündlein verhanden ist" A maj. SATB 39: 270 III/2.1: 91
III/2.2: 29		 after Z 4482a; text by Herman 00499
430 5. c. 1735 or earlier chorale setting "Wenn mein Stündlein verhanden ist" A maj. SATB 39: 271 III/2.1: 68
III/2.2: 201		 after Z 4482a; text by Herman 00500
431 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein" F maj. SATB 39: 272 III/2.2: 38 after Z 394; text by Eber 00501
432 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein" G maj. SATB 39: 272 III/2.2: 146 after Z 394; text by Eber 00502
433 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Wer Gott vertraut, hat wohl gebaut" G maj. SATB 39: 273 III/2.2: 78 after Z 8207; text by Magdeburg [de][45] 00503
434 5. c. 1735 or earlier chorale setting "Wer weiß, wie nahe mir mein Ende" A min. SATB 39: 273 III/2.1: 38 after Z 2778; text by Emilie Juliane of B-M 00504
chorale setting "Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten" III/2.2: 85 after Z 2778; text by Neumark
435 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Wie bist du, Seele, in mir so gar betrübt" E min. SATB 39: 274 III/2.2: 143 after Z 4092; text by Zeutschner [choralwiki] 00505
436 5. c. 1735 or earlier chorale setting "Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern" E maj. SATB 39: 274 III/2.1: 45
III/2.2: 165		 after Z 8359; text by Nicolai 00506
437 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Wir glauben all an einen Gott" D Dor. SATB 39: 275 III/2.2: 76 after Z 7971; text by Luther after Creed 00507
258 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns hält" B min. SATB 39: 179 III/2.2: 194 after Z 4441a; text by Jonas 00328
438 5. 1750 or earlier chorale setting "Wo Gott zum Haus nicht gibt sein Gunst" F maj. SATB 39: 276 III/2.2: 90 after Z 305; text by Kolross 00508

In the 1725 Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach

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Included in the second Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach (started 1725): BWV 299: "Dir, dir, Jehova, will ich singen" (included as No. 39, in both a four-part chorale version and a voice and bass version) • BWV 397: "O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort" (included as No. 42 in a voice and bass version = BWV 513)

With a voice and bass variant in Schemellis Gesangbuch

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Two-part versions in Schemellis Gesangbuch:[46] No. 40 (3), BWV 447 → BWV 297 • No. 281 (18), BWV 481 → BWV 413 • No. 293 (22), BWV 499 → BWV 410 • No. 296 (23), BWV 500 ↔ BWV 500a, four-part variant in St Mark Passion pasticcio • No. 315 (26), BWV 501 → BWV 412 • No. 320 (27), BWV 441 → BWV 441* or deest • No. 397 (32), BWV 452 → BWV 299 • No. 488 (37), BWV 461 → BWV 320 • No. 741 (53), BWV 470 → BWV 357 • No. 779 (55), BWV 506 → BWV 424 • No. 881 (63), BWV 488 → BWV 258 • No. 894 (65), BWV 495 → BWV 405

Other four-part chorales in early manuscripts

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Authenticated as Bach's after the first edition (1950) of the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis: BWV 1089: "Da Jesus an dem Kreuze stund" • BWV 1122: "Denket doch, ihr Menschenkinder" • BWV 1123: "Wo Gott zum Haus nicht gibt sein Gunst" • BWV 1124: "Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ" • BWV 1125: "O Gott, du frommer Gott" • BWV 1126: "Lobet Gott, unsern Herren" • BWV deest: "Liebster Gott, wenn werd ich sterben"

See also

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References

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  1. ↑ Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Johann Friedrich Agricola. "Bach's Nekrolog" (full title: "VI. Denkmal dreyer verstorbenen Mitglieder der Societät der musikalischen Wissenschafften; C. Der dritte und letzte ist der im Orgelspielen Weltberühmte HochEdle Herr Johann Sebastian Bach, Königlich-Pohlnischer und Churfürstlich Sächsicher Hofcompositeur, und Musikdirector in Leipzig"), pp. 158–176 in Lorenz Christoph Mizler's Musikalische Bibliothek [de], Volume IV Part 1. Leipzig, Mizlerischer Bücherverlag, 1754 – pp. 167–168
  2. ↑ D-B Mus.ms. Bach St 123 at Bach Digital website; Mus.ms. Bach St 123 at Berlin State Library website; RISM 989003631
  3. ↑ "Leipzig, Stadtbibliothek Leipzig, Musikbibliothek: D-LEb Peters Ms. R 18 = Choralsammlung Dietel (Depositum im Bach-Archiv)" (description of Dietel's collection of four-part chorales by Johann Sebastian Bach). Bach Digital. 2017. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
  4. ↑ § "Dietel (A1)" in Quick key to the early chorale collections at www.bach-chorales.com
  5. ↑ 149 Chorales, D-LEb Peters Ms. R 18 (Bach, Johann Sebastian): Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
  6. ↑ Dirst 2017, pp. 469.
  7. ↑ Melamed & Marissen 2006, p. 125.
  8. ↑ Schulze 1983, pp. 84ff.
  9. ↑ Schulze 1996, p. 40.
  10. ↑ Platen 1976, pp. 50–51.
  11. 1 2 Dürr & Kobayashi 1998, p. 468.
  12. 1 2
  13. ↑ "Gott fähret auf mit Jauchzen BWV 43". Bach Digital. Leipzig: Bach Archive; et al. 2020-04-24.
  14. ↑ "Liebster Gott, wenn werd ich sterben [1st version] BWV 8.1". Bach Digital. Leipzig: Bach Archive; et al. 2020-04-08.
  15. 1 2 Vetter, Daniel (1713). Musicalische Kirch- und Hauß-Ergötzlichkeit (in German). Vol. 2. Leipzig. No. 91. OCLC 857536916.
  16. ↑ Luke Dahn. BWV 281 at bach-chorales.com, 2017
  17. 1 2 Johann Sebastian Bach's Werke (BGA), Bach-Gesellschaft Leipzig, ed. Franz Wüllner, Breitkopf & Härtel, vol 39 (1892) and Schlußband (final volume) (1899).
  18. 1 2 Bernhard Friedrich Richter (editor). Joh. Seb. Bach: 389 Choral-Gesänge für gemischten Chor. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1899 (later also published as Bach: Choralgesänge)
  19. ↑ Dürr & Kobayashi 1998, p. 285.
  20. ↑ RISM 00000990003404; copy in Leipzig City Library: D-LEm II. 1. 4° 103 at Bach Digital website
  21. ↑ Dürr & Kobayashi 1998, pp. 284–301.
  22. ↑ Charles Sanford Terry (editor). The Four-Part Chorals of J. S. Bach: With the German Text of the Hymns and English Translations. Travis and Emery, 2009. ISBN 1906857245
  23. ↑ Albert Riemenschneider (editor). Bach: 371 Harmonized Chorales and 69 Chorale Melodies with Figured Bass. New York: G. Schirmer, 1941.
  24. ↑ Imre Sulyok (editor). J. S. Bach: Vierstimmige Choralgesänge. Editio Musica Budapest, 1982 (pocket score edited by János Dobra: 1988)
  25. ↑ Johann Sebastian Bach: 389 Chorales for SATB voices with German Text. Kalmus, 1985. ISBN 0769244203
  26. ↑ Dürr & Kobayashi 1998.
  27. ↑ 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
  28. ↑ BGA Vol. 39 (1893), pp. 277ff.
  29. 1 2 Zahn 1889–1893.
  30. ↑ Dürr & Kobayashi 1998, pp. 471–481.
  31. ↑ Uwe Wolf (editor), Henry S. Drinker (translator). "Foreword", p. 4 in Johann Sebastian Bach: Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir (Lord God, we praise thee all of us) BWV 130 (Partitur/Full score). Carus, 2015
  32. ↑ Anja Morgenstern (editor), Henry S. Drinker (translator). "Foreword", p. 4 in Johann Sebastian Bach: Wir müssen durch viel Trübsal in das Reich Gottes eingehen BWV 146 / BC A 70 (Partitur/Full score). Carus, 2004
  33. ↑ Daniel R. Melamed. J. S. Bach and the German Motet. Cambridge University Press, 1995. ISBN 052141864X, pp. 38–40
  34. ↑ Bach Digital Work 00342 at Bach Digital website
  35. ↑ Bach Notes and Translations at www.emmanuelmusic.org
  36. ↑ Bach Digital Work 01339 at Bach Digital website
  37. ↑ Bach Digital Work 00571 at Bach Digital website
  38. ↑ Bach Digital Work 01270 at Bach Digital website
  39. ↑ Bach Digital Work 01679 at Bach Digital website
  40. ↑ Bach-Gesellschaft Ausgabe, .../Prefaces, .../Thematic Catalogue: documentation and facsimiles at the International Music Score Library Project
  41. ↑ Neue Bach-Ausgabe: documentation at the International Music Score Library Project
  42. ↑ BWV 281 at Luke Dahn's www.bach-chorales.com website (2018).
  43. ↑ Zahn 1889–1893, III, p. 131.
  44. ↑ l. u. (1885). "Moller, Heinrich von" . Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German). Vol. 22. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. pp. 758–759.
  45. 1 2 Platen 1976, pp. 53–54.
  46. ↑ Four–part Realizations of Two–Part Schemelli Chorales at bach-chorales.com

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