List of masses, passions and oratorios by Johann Sebastian Bach
Masses, Passions, Oratorios is the subject of the second series of the Neue Bach-Ausgabe, a publication of Johann Sebastian Bach's music from 1954 to 2007. In the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis masses, passions and oratorios refers to two chapters:
- Chapter 3: Messen, Messensätze, Magnificat, original range: BWV 232–243
- Chapter 4: Passionen, Oratorien, original range: BWV 244–249
Further the second series of the NBA and/or the 1998 updated edition of the BWV group some new additions to the BWV catalogue with the masses, passions and oratorios, and regroup some compositions that were formerly associated with other genres in the masses, passions and oratorios group.
Also various items in the BWV Anhang, or even unmentioned in the BWV are associated with this group, for instance the motet Der Gerechte kömmt um, BC
C 8, arranged, probably by Bach, from the Tristis est anima mea motet attributed to Johann Kuhnau. Such compositions or movements usually have a Bach Digital Work page at the website.
Masses, mass movements and Magnificat
Mass with all usual sections
- BWV 232 – Mass in B minor
Kyrie–Gloria masses
- BWV 232I, early version – Missa in B minor for the Dresden court, re-used as part I of the Mass in B minor
- BWV 233 – Missa in F major
- BWV 234 – Missa in A major
- BWV 235 – Missa in G minor
- BWV 236 – Missa in G major
Cantata based on BWV 232I
- BWV 191 – Cantata Gloria in excelsis Deo
Separate mass movements
- BWV 232II, early version – Credo in G major
- BWV 232III, early version – Sanctus for six vocal parts
- BWV 233a –
- BWV 237 – Sanctus in C major
- BWV 238 – Sanctus in D major
- BWV 239 – Sanctus in D minor
- BWV 240 – Sanctus in G major
- BWV 241 – Sanctus in D major
- BWV 242 – Christe eleison in G minor
Latin Magnificat
- BWV 243 – Magnificat in D major
- BWV 243a – Magnificat in E-flat major, early version of BWV 243, containing four Latin and German interpolations related to Christmas
German Magnificat cantatas
- BWV 10 – Meine Seel erhebt den Herren
- BWV 189 – Meine Seele rühmt und preist on a German paraphrase of the Magnificat text, attributed to Melchior Hoffmann.
- BWV Anh. 21 – Meine Seel erhebt den Herren, by Melchior Hoffmann.
Other
- BWV 1081 – Credo intonation in F major for a Mass by Giovanni Battista Bassani, BDW
- BWV 1082 – Bach's copy of the Suscepit Israel of Antonio Caldara's Magnificat in C major.
- BWV 1083 – Tilge, Höchster, meine Sünden, Bach's adaptation of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater.
- BWV Anh. 24 – Kyrie and Gloria in A minor from "Missa Sancti Lamberti" by Johann Christoph Pez; Bach copied its Kyrie in Weimar, adding a line different from the original continuo; Its Gloria was copied without modification in Leipzig.
- BWV Anh. 25 – Kyrie–Gloria Mass in C major.
- BWV Anh. 26 –
- BWV Anh. 27 – Sanctus in F major by Johann Ludwig Krebs.
- BWV Anh. 28 – Sanctus in B major.
- BWV Anh. 29 – continuo part for a Mass in C minor
- BWV Anh. 30 – Magnificat in C major for SSAATTBB choir and orchestra attributed to Antonio Lotti, and later to Pietro Torri
- BWV Anh. 166 – Missa super cantilena "Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr": Kyrie–Gloria Mass in E minor composed in 1716 by Johann Ludwig Bach, previously attributed to Johann Nicolaus Bach, with part scores written out by J. S. Bach and others for performance in 1729, and a small addition by J. S. Bach at the beginning of the Gloria. The text of the Gloria is partly in German: it intersperses the Latin text of the Gloria with, as cantus firmus, all four stanzas of "Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr", a Lutheran hymn by Nicolaus Decius and Joachim Slüter.
- BWV Anh. 167 – Kyrie–Gloria Mass in G major for double SATB choir and orchestra, possibly by Johann Ludwig Bach or Antonio Lotti. One of its 18th-century manuscript copies is partially in J. S. Bach's handwriting. Published and performed as J. S. Bach's in 1805.
- BWV Anh. 168 – Kyrie composed by Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, BDW
- BWV deest – Bach's transposition from D minor to E minor and colla parte orchestration for the first two movements of Palestrina's, to be performed in Leipzig in the early 1740s as a.
Passions and oratorios
Passions composed by Bach
- BWV 244 – St Matthew Passion
- * BWV 244b – St Matthew Passion, early version
- BWV 245 – St John Passion, various versions, including:
- * St. John Passion, 2nd version, with opening chorus "O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde groß", BDW, containing:
- ** BWV 245a – Aria "Himmel reiße, Welt erbebe"
- ** BWV 245b – Aria "Zerschmettert mich, ihr Felsen und ihr Hügel"
- ** BWV 245c – Aria "Ach, windet euch nicht so, geplagte Seelen"
- * St. John Passion, Bach's last revision, BDW
- BWV 247 – St Mark Passion
- BWV deest – Weimarer Passion, BDW
Passions by other composers with movements by Bach
- BWV 246 – St Luke Passion by an unknown composer and librettist, includes one movement by Bach:
- * BWV 246/40a – Chorale "Aus der Tiefen rufe ich", BDW
- BWV deest – St Mark Passion, surviving in various versions, with three movements associated with Bach:
- * BWV 500a – Chorale "So gehst du nun, mein Jesu, hin", BDW
- * BWV 1084 – Chorale "O hilf Christe, Gottes Sohn", BDW, and earlier version BDW
- * BWV deest – Chorale "O Traurigkeit, o Herzeleid", BDW, and earlier version BDW
- BWV deest – Passion oratorio Wer ist der, so von Edom kömmt, with three movements associated with Bach:
- * BWV 127/1 – Chorus "Herr Jesu Christ, wahr' Mensch und Gott", BDW
- * BWV 1088 – Arioso "So heb ich denn mein Auge sehnlich auf", BDW
- * BWV deest – Chorus "Der Gerechte kömmt um", also as separate motet, BDW
Other vocal compositions associated with Passion music
- BWV 244a – Trauermusik Klagt, Kinder, klagt es aller Welt, music lost but largely reconstructable based on BWV 244b and 198
- BWV 200 – Aria "Bekennen will ich seinen Namen", arranged by Bach from a Passion oratorio by Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, BDW
Spurious
- BWV Anh. 169 – Passion text Erbauliche Gedanken auf den Grünen Donnerstag und Charfreitag über den Leidenden Jesum by Picander, not set by Bach
Oratorios and associated cantatas
- BWV 248 – Christmas Oratorio, consisting of six cantatas composed for the Christmas season of 1734–1735:
- * BWV 248I – Cantata Jauchzet, frohlocket! Auf, preiset die Tage
- * BWV 248II – Cantata Und es waren Hirten in derselben Gegend
- * BWV 248III – Cantata Herrscher des Himmels, erhöre das Lallen
- * BWV 248IV – Cantata Fallt mit Danken, fallt mit Loben
- * BWV 248V – Cantata Ehre sei dir, Gott, gesungen
- * BWV 248VI – Cantata Herr, wenn die stolzen Feinde schnauben
- BWV 248VIa – textless cantata, model for BWV 248VI.
- BWV 249 – Easter Oratorio, also known by its incipit Kommt, eilet und laufet
- * BWV 249a – Secular cantata Entfliehet, verschwindet, entweichet, ihr Sorgen
- * BWV 249b – Secular cantata Verjaget, zerstreuet, zerrüttet, ihr Sterne
- BWV 11 – Ascension Oratorio, previously known as Cantata Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen
Compositions in the third and fourth chapters of the ''Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis'' (1998)
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