{"id":571,"date":"2015-05-08T09:06:37","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T08:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/partitura.org\/?page_id=571"},"modified":"2025-09-26T15:46:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T13:46:56","slug":"bach-johann-sebastian","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/partitura.org\/index.php\/bach-johann-sebastian\/","title":{"rendered":"Bach, Johann Sebastian"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bach and Kuhnau, Erbarm dich mein (BWV 721) and Il tremore degl’Israliti<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n One of the most unusual compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach, perhaps you might even call it unique, as it is literally one of a kind is the choral\u2026 <\/p>\n

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Bach, Erstanden ist der heilig Christ, BWV Anh. II 51 (version D-LEb Rara Ib, 45)<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n Posted on Apr 16th, 2017 <\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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\n Bach's authorship of this piece is uncertain, hence its catalogisation in Anhang II of Schmieder's Bachwerke Verzeichnis. Two sources for this piece\u2026 <\/p>\n

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Bach, Erstanden ist der heilig Christ, BWV Anh. II 51 (version Mus. Hs. 35149)<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n Posted on Apr 16th, 2017 <\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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\n Bach's authorship of this piece is uncertain, hence its catalogisation in Anhang II of Schmieder's Bachwerke Verzeichnis. Two sources for this piece\u2026 <\/p>\n

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Bach, Herr Christ, der einig Gottes Sohn, BWV Anh. II 55<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n Posted on Apr 1st, 2016 <\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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\n The catalog of works by Bach (the Bach Werke Verzeichnis) has four appendices, Anhang I, Anhang II, Anhang III and Anhang N. The first lists the\u2026 <\/p>\n

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Johann Sebastian Bach (?), Ach, was soll ich S\u00fcnder machen (Emans 19)<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n Posted on May 5th, 2024 <\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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\n Among the many many compositions that may or may not have been written by Johann Sebastian Bach, is the little choral partita \"Ach, was soll ich\u2026 <\/p>\n

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Johann Sebastian Bach (?), Allein Gott in der H\u00f6h sei Ehr, BWV Anh. II 48<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n Posted on Apr 21st, 2017 <\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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\n The second appendix of Schmieder's catalog of works by Bach contains the works of which Bach's authorship is uncertain. The choral prelude to \"Allein\u2026 <\/p>\n

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Johann Sebastian Bach (?), Canon “So gehst du nun, mein Jesu, hin” (BWV Anh. II 72, Emans 198)<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n Posted on Apr 24th, 2025 <\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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\n Bach's authorship of this Canon is uncertain. The source of this composition, manuscript Mus Ms P285, owned by the Staatsbibliothek Berlin, does not\u2026 <\/p>\n

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Johann Sebastian Bach (?), Da Jesus an dem Kreuze stund (Emans 48)<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n Posted on Mar 31st, 2018 <\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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\n Bach's authorship of the this choral prelude to \"Da Jesus an dem Kreuze stund\" is doubted. It doesn't even appear in the annex (Anhang) to the\u2026 <\/p>\n

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Johann Sebastian Bach (?), Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, BWV Anh. II 49<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n Posted on Jun 7th, 2017 <\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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\n The chorale prelude to \"Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott\", BWV Anh. II 49 is another one of the works of which the authorship of Bach is uncertain. It\u2026 <\/p>\n

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Johann Sebastian Bach (?), Erhalt uns Herr bei deinem Wort, BWV Anh. II 50<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n Posted on May 1st, 2017 <\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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\n The chorale prelude to \"Erhalt uns Herr bei deinem Wort\", BWV Anh. II 50 sounds to me like it could have been composed by Bach. Other examples of\u2026 <\/p>\n

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Johann Sebastian Bach (?), Es spricht der unweisen mund (Emans 69)<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n Posted on Mar 4th, 2019 <\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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\n The list of possible or spurious Bach works extends beyond the BWV-catalogue. Reinmar Emans made a list (around 1997) of chorale preludes that could\u2026 <\/p>\n

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Johann Sebastian Bach (?), Freu dich sehr o meine Seele, BWV Anh. II 52<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n Posted on Jun 14th, 2017 <\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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\n Again a piece that may or may not have been composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. It is an elegant piece in which the chorale melody flows in long\u2026 <\/p>\n

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Johann Sebastian Bach (?), Freu dich sehr, o meine Seele, BWV Anh. II 53<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n Posted on Jun 16th, 2017 <\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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\n This is the twin prelude to the one I posted two days ago. And then only because it has the same choral melody as subject and it's possibly written\u2026 <\/p>\n

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Johann Sebastian Bach (?), Herr Christ, der einig Gottes Sohn (Emans 85)<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n Posted on Nov 22nd, 2019 <\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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\n Some of the spurious compositions attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach, are not even included in the second appendix of Schmieder's catalogue of\u2026 <\/p>\n

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Johann Sebastian Bach (?), Herr Jesu Christ, wahr Mensch und Gott (Emans 101)<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n Posted on Mar 20th, 2019 <\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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\n The list of possible or spurious Bach works extends beyond the BWV-catalogue. Reinmar Emans made a list (around 1997) of chorale preludes that could\u2026 <\/p>\n

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Johann Sebastian Bach (?), Jesu meine Freude (BWV Anh II 59)<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n Posted on Apr 25th, 2018 <\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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\n Bach's authorship of this chorale prelude on \"Jese meine Freude\" is doubted. And probably rightly so. The use of sequences is a bit bland and not as\u2026 <\/p>\n

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Johann Sebastian Bach (?), Jesu meine Freude, BWV Anh. II 58<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n Posted on Oct 1st, 2017 <\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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\n Since I started transcribing the works from BWV Anhang II (the list of works that are possibly composed by Johann Sebastian Bach, but the authorship\u2026 <\/p>\n

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Johann Sebastian Bach (?), Lobt Gott ihr Christen allzugleich (Emans 129)<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n Posted on Nov 26th, 2019 <\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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\n Some of the spurious compositions attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach, are not even included in the second appendix of Schmieder's catalogue of\u2026 <\/p>\n

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Johann Sebastian Bach (?), Nun komm der Heiden Heiland (Emans 140)<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n Posted on Dec 17th, 2018 <\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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\n This piece is one of the many choral preludes of which the authorship of Johann Sebastian Bach is doubtfull. It did not get a BWV-number, but Emans\u2026 <\/p>\n

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Johann Sebastian Bach (?), Nun lob mein Seel den Herren, BWV Anh. II 60<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n Posted on Oct 4th, 2019 <\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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\n The Anhang II of Schmieder's catalogue of Bach's composition contains the spurious works. According to the manuscript sources they were composed by\u2026 <\/p>\n

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Johann Sebastian Bach (?), O Mensch, bewein dein S\u00fcnde gross, BWV Anh. II 61<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n Posted on Oct 26th, 2019 <\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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\n The Anhang II of Schmieder's catalogue of Bach's composition contains the spurious works. Number 61 of these is a chorale prelude on the melody of \"O\u2026 <\/p>\n

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Johann Sebastian Bach (?), Sei Lob und Ehr mit hohem Preis, BWV Anh. II 62a<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n Posted on Nov 18th, 2019 <\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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\n The two choral preludes on the melody of \"Sei Lob und Ehr und hohem Preis\" BWV AnhII 62a and 62b appear in the same manuscript next to each other.\u2026 <\/p>\n

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Johann Sebastian Bach (?), Sei Lob und Ehr mit hohem Preis, BWV Anh. II 62b<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n Posted on Nov 20th, 2019 <\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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\n The two choral preludes on the melody of \"Sei Lob und Ehr und hohem Preis\" BWV AnhII 62a and 62b appear in the same manuscript next to each other.\u2026 <\/p>\n

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Johann Sebastian Bach (?), Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her, BWV Anh. II 63<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n Posted on Nov 7th, 2019 <\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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\n In the series of spurious works by (or not) Johann Sebastian Bach, I skip two compositions for now (BWV Anh. II 62a and 62b) to reach three choral\u2026 <\/p>\n

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Johann Sebastian Bach (?), Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her, BWV Anh. II 64<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n Posted on Nov 11th, 2019 <\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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\n The second of the three spurious chorale preludes to the Christmas choral \"Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her\" is the most virtuosic of the three. It\u2026 <\/p>\n

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Johann Sebastian Bach (?), Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her, BWV Anh. II 65<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n Posted on Nov 13th, 2019 <\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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\n The third and last of the three spurious chorale preludes to the Christmas choral \"Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her\" is a bicinium. The right hand\u2026 <\/p>\n

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Johann Sebastian Bach (?), Was Gott tut das ist wohlgetan (BWV Anh. II 67)<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n Posted on Feb 6th, 2022 <\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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\n Number 67 of the second appendix to Schmieder's catalogue of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach is still tentatively ascribed to Bach. And even\u2026 <\/p>\n

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Johann Sebastian Bach (?), Wer nur den lieben Gott l\u00e4sst walten (BWV Anh. II 68)<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n Posted on Jun 25th, 2022 <\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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\n Manuscript Mus ms P285, Rara lb 36 contains two compositions that were presumably not written by Johann Sebastian Bach. Hence their inclusion in the\u2026 <\/p>\n

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Johann Sebastian Bach (?), Wir glauben all an einen Gott (BWV Anh. II 69)<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n Posted on Jul 17th, 2022 <\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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\n The second appendix to the catalogue of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach, contains the works of which Bach's authorship is doubtful. Of some of\u2026 <\/p>\n

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Johann Sebastian Bach (?), Wir glauben all an einen Gott (BWV Anh. II 70)<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n Posted on Jun 28th, 2023 <\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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\n It is already almost a year ago I published something in the series of spurious Bach compositions (see here: \u2026 <\/p>\n

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Johann Sebastian Bach (?)\/Gottfried August Homilius (?), Schm\u00fccke dich, o liebe Seele (BWV Anh. II 74)<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n Posted on Apr 18th, 2025 <\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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\n The source for this composition is manuscript Mus. ms. Bach P 1115, owned by the Staatsbibliothek Berlin. It contains 12 compositions of which the\u2026 <\/p>\n

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Johann Sebastian Bach, Agnus Dei (Hohe Messe, BWV 232)<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n Posted on Mar 11th, 2022 <\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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\n A few days ago I stumbled upon a tanscription of Bach's Agnus Dei, from his Hohe Messe (BWV 232), for organ. And it was actually quite a bad\u2026 <\/p>\n

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Johann Sebastian Bach, Helft mir Gottes G\u00fcte preisen, BWV Anh. II 54<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n Posted on Jul 6th, 2017 <\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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\n This prelude on \"Helft mir Gottes G\u00fcte preisen\" has an interesting feauture. The accompaniment to the choral melody is not written with a specific\u2026 <\/p>\n

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Johann Sebastian Bach, Herr Jesu Christ wahr Mensch und Gott (Emans 100)<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n Posted on Mar 9th, 2019 <\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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\n The list of possible or spurious Bach works extends beyond the BWV-catalogue. Reinmar Emans made a list (around 1997) of chorale preludes that could\u2026 <\/p>\n

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Johann Sebastian Bach, Nun komm der Heiden Heiland, BWV 660b<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n Posted on Nov 12th, 2015 <\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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\n The chorale prelude on \"Nun komm der heiden Heiland\", BWV 660, is a well known part of the 18 Leipziger Chor\u00e4le. BWV 660b is a variant of this well\u2026 <\/p>\n

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Johann Sebastian Bach, Siciliano from Flute Sonata BWV 1031<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n Posted on May 8th, 2015 <\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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\n A very nice transcription of this Siciliano, made by Arno Rog. He kindly gave permission to make his transcription available on this website.\r\n\r\nThe\u2026 <\/p>\n

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Johann Sebastian Bach, Siciliano from Violin Sonata BWV 1017<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n Posted on Nov 7th, 2015 <\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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\n A while ago I posted a transcription by Arno Rog of the Siciliano from the flute sonata, BWV 1031. Today I made a transcription myself, of the\u2026 <\/p>\n

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Johann Sebastian Bach, Trio d minor, BWV 583<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n Posted on Apr 23rd, 2020 <\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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\n There remains no autograph of this the Trio in d minor, BWV 583. All sources of this work are copies written somewhere after Bach's death. Though\u2026 <\/p>\n

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Johann Sebastian Bach, Trio g moll, BWV 584<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n Posted on Apr 29th, 2018 <\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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\n Yesterday I stumbled by accident on a recording of an organ trio in g minor, by Bach, I had never heard before, with the BWV number 584. I remember\u2026 <\/p>\n

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Johann Sebastian Bach\/Carl Philip Emanuel Bach, Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ (BWV Anh. II 73)<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n Posted on Dec 15th, 2024 <\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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\n One of the most popular compositions from Bach's Orgelb\u00fcchlein is undoubtedly the prelude to the choral \"Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ\", BWV 639.\u2026 <\/p>\n

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