Classical sheet music by Johann Sebastian Bach

Entstehungszeit der diesem Werk zugrundeliegenden Trauungskantate (BWV 34a) 1726, der Parodie in der ersten Hälfte der 1740er Jahre.

Although 'Warum betrübst du dich, mein Herz' (What is it troubles thee, my heart) BWV 138 is based on the chorale of the same name, it is nevertheless not regarded as one of Bach's chorale cantatas. I...

The cantata 'Mein liebster Jesus ist verloren' BWV 154 was first performed on 9 January 1724, the 1st Sunday after Epiphany. The structure and extent of the work are unusual: it comprises eight, inste...

Johann Sebastian Bach’s Magnificat BWV 243 was composed in its first form in E flat, right at the beginning of Bach’s period in Leipzig, possibly for the Visitation of Mary on July 2, 1723. Its perfor...

Single piano edition

> First modern Urtext edition > The appendix contains an eleventh chorale prelude - published for the first time > Most of them can also be played by amateur pianists Alongside the Chaconne for violin...

The French Bach cult, which began in the early 19th century, reached an initial highpoint around 1850. Charles Gounod, still largely unknown at the time, also studied Bach's works intensively - his ch...

Easy arrangement: Hans Günter Heumann

Twentieth-century arrangements from choral and instrumental works - Seventeen contrasting Bach transcriptions originally published separately by OUP from 1925 to 1954 - Pieces carefully selected by M...

The St. John Passion was first performed in Leipzig on Good Friday of 1724. Written three years before the St. Matthew Passion, it was a work Bach revised during the rest of his life, in fact he did n...

The Hochzeitskantate (Wedding Cantata) BWV 195 was performed by Bach from around 1730 at various wedding celebrations in different forms, and was evidently also lent out for performances further afiel...

Written in 1727 for a "speech of praise and mourning" for Electress Christiane Eberhardine in Leipzig's university church, the music of the Trauerode is known today primarily through reconstructions o...

Every era hears and interprets Bach anew, and every era also evaluates the sources afresh and with new eyes. 40 years after the publication of the St. Matthew Passion in the New Bach Edition, Klaus Ho...

47 chorales over 31 melodies, including the Kirnberger chorales (mostly). Urtext of the New Bach Edition. Organ - performing score; Urtext edition.

21 compositions, final versions. Urtext of the New Bach Edition.

Urtext of the New Bach Edition. Organ - performing score.

Johann Sebastian Bach provided a number of his cantatas with a purely instrumental introductory piece, a Sinfonia. Some of them are reworkings of his own works, others do not appear in the collection...

Inhalt: Direktion und Einzelstimmen Violine 1 + 2, Viola, Violoncello 1. Aus meines Herzens Grunde, BWV 269; 2. Ich dank dir, lieber Herre, BWV 347

The `Air` by Johann Sebastian Bach at best can rival his setting `Jesus bleibet meine Freude` for popularity: The final chorus from the cantata BWV 147 `Heart and Mouth and Deed and Life` is really ca...

Transcribed by Donald Hunsberger, this setting has been scored for the expanded orchestra wind section. Grade 4-5.

Bach's 'Minuet in G Major' provides the inspiration for this lively rock-style piece for young bands. A statement of the original theme gives way to a rousing rock version of this famous melody. Corre...