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Bach Compendium

The Bach Compendium (BC) is a systematic catalog of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, which was developed by the musicologists Hans-Joachim Schulze and Christoph Wolff.

The Bach Compendium offers a similar genre-based classification such as the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (BWV) or the New Bach Edition (NBA); however, it lists the individual works, especially the cantatas, in a different order, which at least partially reflects the chronological genesis according to the date of publication suggested by the current research for the Compendium.

As for the thoroughness in the description of the original sources, the BC stands between the detailed descriptions and analyses of the Critical Commentaries of the NBA and the rather cursory statements of the BWV.

Of the seven volumes that were originally planned, four volumes were published between 1985 and 1989.

Division into workgroups

The works in BC are divided into the following work groups:

A - Cantatas for Sundays and feast days of the liturgical year

B - Sacred works for special occasions

C - Motets

D - Passions and Oratorios

E - Latin church music

F - Chorales and sacred songs

G - Secular cantatas for court, nobility and bourgeoisie

H - Vocal chamber music

J - Free Organ Works

K - Chorale-based Organ Works

L - Keyboard Music

M - Chamber music for one instrument

N - Chamber music for duo or trio ensembles

O - Chamber music for larger ensembles

P - Canons

Q - Didactic works and exercises

R - Sketches and drafts

S - Original collections

T - Doubtful vocal works

U - Doubtful instrumental works

V - Spurious vocal works

W - Spurious instrumental works

X - Copies (and essentially straightforward arrangements) of vocal works by other composers

Y - Copies (and essentially straightforward arrangements) of instrumental works by other composers

Z - Contemporary collections

Publishing

The following volumes have ben published (all by Peters):

• Volume 1, Part 1: Vocal Works I (containing works A 1 through A 100), Leipzig 1985, (ISBN 3-369-00031-8) or Frankfurt am Main 1986, (ISBN 3-876-26081-7);
• Volume 1, Part 2: Vocal Works II (containing works A 101 through 194), Leipzig 1987, (ISBN 3-369-00032-6);
• Volume 1, Part 3: Vocal Works III (containing workgroups B, C, and D), Leipzig 1988, (ISBN 3-369-00033-4) or Frankfurt am Main 1988, (ISBN 3-876-26083-3);
• Volume 1, Part 4: Vocal Works IV (containing workgroups E, F, G, and H), Leipzig 1989, (ISBN 3-369-00051-2) ou Francfort sur le Main 1989, (ISBN 3-876-26084-1);

References

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