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J.S. Bach

A Complete Introduction to J.S. Bach | Inside the Score

Works

• Organ Music
  • Over 200 Chorale settings
  • Many Chorale Preludes
  • Toccatas
  • Fantasias
  • Preludes — Orgelbüchlein
  • Fugues
• Keyboard
  • 6 English Suites
  • 6 Frech Suites
  • 6 Partitas
  • The Well-Tempered Clavier, Books 1&2
  • The Goldberg Variations
  • The Art of Fugue
• Chamber Music
  • 15 Sonatas for instrument with Harpsichord
    • 6 for Violin
    • 6 for Flute
    • 3 for Viola Da Gamba
  • 6 Sonatas and Partitas for Vilin
  • 6 Suites for Cello
  • 1 Partita for Flute
• Orchestral Music
  • 6 Brandenburg Concertos
• Vocal Music
  • Over 200 Cantatas
  • Passions (St. Matthew, St. John)
• Mass in B Minor (personal compendium of greatest vocal works)

Where to Start?

• St. John Passion (emotional)
• Goldberg Variations (emotional, rational, and virtuoso)
• Mass in B Minor
• Orchestral Transcriptions
  • Edward Elgar
  • Arnold Schoenberg
  • Stokowski