BWV

: This article is about the catalogue system of Johann Sebastian Bach's musical works. BWV is also the SIL code for the language Bahau River Kenyah spoken in Borneo.

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Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis ("Bach Works Catalogue") is the numbering system used to identify musical works by Johann Sebastian Bach. The BWV numbers were assigned by Wolfgang Schmieder in 1950, indicating the placement in the catalogue of Bach's works entitled Thematisch-systematisches Verzeichnis der musikalischen Werke von Johann Sebastian Bach. The BWV numbers are universally used and accepted as the standard way of numbering the works of Bach, for example: "Mass in B minor, BWV 232, composed in 1733". At times the BWV numbers are called Schmieder numbers. The terms are interchangeable: in some (mostly older) publications indications like S. 232 for the work mentioned in the example above can be found.

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For a list of Bach's works arranged by BWV number, see list of compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach.

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Schmieder's catalogue was updated several times, e.g. removing uncertain works to the "annexes", adding newly discovered works, etc... These updated versions generally appear in print: the 1990 edition appeared as ISBN 3-7651-0255-5

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Johann Sebastian Bach: Johann Sebastian Bach (21 March, 1685 – 28 July 1750) was a German composer and organist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra and keyboard drew together almost all of the pre-existing strands of the baroque style and brought it to its ultimate maturity. Although he introduced n...

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Autograph Manuscript Cantata Bwv 180 'schmucke Dich O Liebe Seele' by J.S. Bach