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16-677: The English Suites , BWV 806–811, are a set of six suites written by the German composer Johann Sebastian Bach for harpsichord (or clavichord ) and generally thought to be the earliest of his 19 suites for keyboard (discounting several less well-known earlier suites), the others being the six French Suites (BWV 812–817), the six Partitas (BWV 825-830) and the Overture in the French style (BWV 831). They probably date from around 1713 or 1714. These six suites for keyboard are thought to be

32-565: A small edition of the catalogue, based on the 1990 second edition. This edition, known as BWV , contained a few further updates and collation rearrangements. New additions ( Nachträge ) to BWV /BWV included: Numbers above BWV 1126 were added in the 21st century. A revised version (3rd edition in total) of the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis was originally announced by the Bach Archive for publication in 2020, however it

48-464: Is demonstrated by his inclusion of a prelude for each suite, departing from an earlier tradition of German derivations of French suite (those of Johann Jakob Froberger and Georg Boehm are examples), which saw a relatively strict progression of the dance movements ( Allemande , Courante , Sarabande and Gigue ) and which did not typically feature a Prelude. Unlike the unmeasured preludes of French lute or keyboard style, however, Bach's preludes in

64-798: The BWV Anh. : Alfred D%C3%BCrr Dürr studied musicology and Classical philology at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen from 1945 to 1950. He wrote his thesis about Bach's early cantatas . From 1951 until his retirement in 1983 he was an employee of the Johann Sebastian Bach Institute in Göttingen, West Germany, from 1962 to 1981 its deputy director. His work involved collaboration with colleagues in East Germany. He

80-463: The Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis was published in 1950. It allocated a unique number to every known composition by Bach. Wolfgang Schmieder , the editor of that catalogue, grouped the compositions by genre, largely following the 19th-century Bach Gesellschaft (BG) edition for the collation (e.g., BG cantata number = BWV number of the cantata): The Anhang of the BWV listed works that were not suitable for

96-584: The University of Oxford and Baldwin–Wallace College in Ohio . His 65th birthday was marked by a Festschrift Bachiana et alia musicologica (ed. W. Rehm, Kassel, 1983). Alfred Dürr died on 7 April 2011 in Göttingen. Dürr wrote standard works on the Bach cantatas (1971) and on The Well-Tempered Clavier , which are of interest not only to specialists, but also to the general public. In 1957 he published in

112-538: The Bach-Jahrbuch Zur Chronologie der Leipziger Vokalwerke J. S. Bachs . In his 1988 book on Bach's St John Passion , Die Johannes-Passion von Johann Sebastian Bach , he explored theological aspects as well as the four versions of the work. Many of Bach's works have uncertain composition dates, and the standard catalogue, the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis , is not a chronological one. Nevertheless, modern scholarship has been able to throw light on

128-514: The English Suites are composed in strict meter. The six suites are: This first suite is unusual in that it has two courantes and two doubles for the second courante. This suite also departs from the scheme of the other five, in that the prelude is short and based on a theme from a suite by Dieupart . The preludes of the other five suites in this series are based on the allegro of a concerto grosso form. The key sequence follows

144-528: The English Suites strongly resemble those of Bach's French Suites and Partitas, particularly in the sequential dance-movement structural organization and treatment of ornamentation. These suites also resemble the Baroque French keyboard suite typified by the generation of composers including Jean-Henri d'Anglebert , and the dance-suite tradition of French lutenists that preceded it. In the English Suites especially, Bach's affinity with French lute music

160-591: The earliest set that Bach composed aside from several miscellaneous suites written when he was much younger. Bach's English Suites display less affinity with Baroque English keyboard style than do the French Suites to French Baroque keyboard style. It has also been suggested that the name is a tribute to Charles Dieupart , whose fame was greatest in England, and on whose Six Suittes de clavessin Bach's English Suites were in part based. Surface characteristics of

176-607: The first decade of the 21st century. Provenance of standard texts and tunes, such as Lutheran hymns and their chorale melodies , Latin liturgical texts (e.g. Magnificat ) and common tunes (e.g. Folia ), are not usually indicated in this column. For an overview of such resources used by Bach, see individual composition articles, and overviews in, e.g., Chorale cantata (Bach)#Bach's chorale cantatas , List of chorale harmonisations by Johann Sebastian Bach#Chorale harmonisations in various collections and List of organ compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach#Chorale Preludes . Appearing in

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192-584: The main catalogue, in three sections: Within each section of the Anhang the works are sorted by genre, following the same sequence of genres as the main catalogue. Schmieder published the BWV's second edition in 1990, with some modifications regarding authenticity discriminations, and more works added to the main catalogue and the Anhang . Several compositions were repositioned in the over-all structure of chapters organised by genre and Anhang sections. In 1998 Alfred Dürr and Yoshitake Kobayashi published

208-520: The same series of notes as the chorale " Jesu, meine Freude "; it is unestablished whether or not this is coincidental. BWV The Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis ( BWV ; lit.   ' Bach works catalogue ' ; German: [ˈbax ˈvɛrkə fɛrˈtsaeçnɪs] ) is a catalogue of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach . It was first published in 1950, edited by Wolfgang Schmieder . The catalogue's second edition appeared in 1990. An abbreviated version of that second edition, known as BWV ,

224-845: Was a principal editor of the Neue Bach-Ausgabe , a project which was divided between the Johann Sebastian Bach Institute and the Bach-Archiv Leipzig in East Germany. From 1953 to 1974 Dürr was editor of the Bach-Jahrbuch (Bach almanach), together with Werner Neumann , the founder and director of the Bach-Archiv Leipzig. Dürr received honorary doctorates of music from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin ,

240-466: Was delayed and only finally published in 2022. The numbers assigned to compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach and by others in the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis are widely used for the unique identification of these compositions. Exceptionally BWV numbers are also indicated as Schmieder (S) numbers (e.g. S. 225 = BWV 225 ). BWV numbers 1 to 1126 appear in the 1998 edition of the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis . BWV numbers above 1126 were assigned from

256-471: Was published in 1998. The catalogue groups compositions by genre. Even within a genre, compositions are not necessarily collated chronologically. For example, BWV 992 was composed many years before BWV 1 . BWV numbers were assigned to 1,126 compositions in the 20th century, and more have been added to the catalogue in the 21st century. The Anhang (Anh.; Annex) of the BWV lists over 200 lost, doubtful and spurious compositions. The first edition of

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