{"id":829,"date":"2015-07-28T22:18:12","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T22:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.candelalearning.com\/musicappreciation\/?post_type=chapter&p=829"},"modified":"2015-09-14T18:49:49","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T18:49:49","slug":"j-s-bach-his-works","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-musicappreciationtheory\/chapter\/j-s-bach-his-works\/","title":{"raw":"J. S. Bach: His Works","rendered":"J. S. Bach: His Works"},"content":{"raw":"
<\/div>\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_2099\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"501\"]\"Sheet<\/a> Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 6[\/caption]\r\n

Works<\/h2>\r\nIn 1950, a thematic catalogue called Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis<\/span><\/i> (Bach Works Catalogue) was compiled by Wolfgang Schmieder.\u00a0Schmieder largely followed the Bach-Gesellschaft-Ausgabe<\/span><\/i>, a comprehensive edition of the composer's works that was produced between 1850 and 1900: BWV 1\u2013224 are cantatas; BWV 225\u2013249, large-scale choral works including his Passions; BWV 250\u2013524, chorales and sacred songs; BWV 525\u2013748, organ works; BWV 772\u2013994, other keyboard works; BWV 995\u20131000, lute music; BWV 1001\u201340, chamber music; BWV 1041\u201371, orchestral music; and BWV 1072\u20131126, canons and fugues.\r\n

Organ Works<\/span><\/h3>\r\nBach was best known during his lifetime as an organist, organ consultant, and composer of organ works in both the traditional German free genres\u2014such as preludes, fantasias, and toccatas\u2014and stricter forms, such as chorale preludes and fugues.\u00a0At a young age, he established a reputation for his great creativity and ability to integrate foreign styles into his organ works. A decidedly North German influence was exerted by Georg B\u00f6hm, with whom Bach came into contact in L\u00fcneburg, and Dieterich Buxtehude, whom the young organist visited in L\u00fcbeck in 1704 on an extended leave of absence from his job in Arnstadt. Around this time, Bach copied the works of numerous French and Italian composers to gain insights into their compositional languages, and later arranged violin concertos by Vivaldi and others for organ and harpsichord. During his most productive period (1708\u201314) he composed about a dozen pairs of preludes and fugues, five toccatas and fugues, and the Little Organ Book<\/i>, an unfinished collection of forty-six short chorale preludes that demonstrates compositional techniques in the setting of chorale tunes. After leaving Weimar, Bach wrote less for organ, although some of his best-known works (the six trio sonatas, the German Organ Mass in Clavier-\u00dcbung\u00a0III<\/span><\/i> from 1739, and the Great Eighteen chorales, revised late in his life) were composed after his leaving Weimar. Bach was extensively engaged later in his life in consulting on organ projects, testing newly built organs, and dedicating organs in afternoon recitals.\r\n

Other Keyboard Works<\/span><\/h3>\r\n
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\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"225\"]\"The The title page of the third part of the Clavier-\u00dcbung, one of the few works by Bach that was published during his lifetime[\/caption]\r\n\r\n
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Bach wrote many works for harpsichord, some of which may have been played on the clavichord. Many of his keyboard works are anthologies that encompass whole theoretical systems in an encyclopedic fashion.<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n