Bach Werke Verzeichnis in German.
(Bach Works Catalogue in English.)
BWV means:
Bach Werke Verzeichnis [Bach Works Listing]
Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis
The German catalogue number of a JS BACH work is called Bach Werke Gezeichnis (abbreviated to BWV). So Cantata N°4 has been catalogued in 1950 as BWV 4, for example. When the Catalogue was revised to include rediscovered works, the was added an Appendix (in German : Anhang, abbreviated to Anh.) So there are Apocryphal Bach Motets assigned the Catalogue numbers BWV Anh. 159-165.
circa 1734
J.S. Bach composed more than 1100 songs if we count from BWV.
Bach was especially fond of potatoes, which he often ate in excess. This can be evidenced from the 59th Cantata, 'O Heil, mein leibe Kartoffel', BWV 622, in which thinly-veiled references to his penchant for the tuber can be discerned. Bach was especially fond of potatoes, which he often ate in excess. This can be evidenced from the 59th Cantata, 'O Heil, mein leibe Kartoffel', BWV 622, in which thinly-veiled references to his penchant for the tuber can be discerned.
Fantasia and Fugue (for organ) BWV 561.St. Matthew Passion BWV 244
1731 Leipzig
The German catalogue number of a JS BACH work is called Bach Werke Gezeichnis (abbreviated to BWV). So Cantata N°4 has been catalogued in 1950 as BWV 4, for example. When the Catalogue was revised to include rediscovered works, the was added an Appendix (in German : Anhang, abbreviated to Anh.) So there are Apocryphal Bach Motets assigned the Catalogue numbers BWV Anh. 159-165.
Your local music library should be able to provide you with this.
It's a version of the bass Recitativo movement from Bach's Cantata "Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland" (BWV 61). A video performance of it is available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5jDF_OHKas
The BWV Numbering System is a method of ordering and labeling the various works of the classical artist Johann Sebastian Bach. BWV stands for "Back-Werke-Verzeichnis", which is German for "Bach Works Catalog".
circa 1734
A minor
Bach Alive Toccata & Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565 (for organ).
Bach Brandenburg Concerto #2 in F, BWV 1047
BWV -not BMW- stands for Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis ("Catalogue of Bach's Works"), made and published by musicologist Wolfgang Schmieder in 1950, and thoroughly updated in 1990. Every known musical work by Johann Sebastian Bach has been assigned a BWV number in his catalogue.
J.S. Bach composed more than 1100 songs if we count from BWV.
Bach was especially fond of potatoes, which he often ate in excess. This can be evidenced from the 59th Cantata, 'O Heil, mein leibe Kartoffel', BWV 622, in which thinly-veiled references to his penchant for the tuber can be discerned. Bach was especially fond of potatoes, which he often ate in excess. This can be evidenced from the 59th Cantata, 'O Heil, mein leibe Kartoffel', BWV 622, in which thinly-veiled references to his penchant for the tuber can be discerned.