Individual Bach Chorales
The chorales are listed on very long pages.
This page lists the chorales in the Riemenschneider edition, 371 Harmonized Chorales, sorted by the chorale number: Chorales by Riemenschneider number
This page lists chorales from the Kalmus (Richter) edition: Chorales by Kalmus Number
This page lists the chorales sorted by German title: Chorale Titles
This page lists the chorales sorted by Chorale BWV
This page lists the chorales sorted by order in the church calendar: Chorale by Church Calendar
This page lists the chorales sorted alphabetically by title and grouped by their original melody: Chorales by Group
This page lists a few chorales reduced for piano sorted by Chorale BWV
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Bach transcribed a group of chorales for organ from cantatas; they were among his favorite pieces and he had them engraved and published by Johann Georg Schübler. The pieces in this set include these chorales and other harmonizations of their melodies.
Bach wrote many organ preludes. This set of eighteen chorale treatments includes only the final or later versions at this time.
Out of Bach's hundreds of chorales, it is very hard to choose favorites. But here are some of mine.
