BWV_Anh.

BWV Anh.

BWV Anh.

Abbreviation for contentious attributions to Bach

BWV Anh., abbreviation of Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis Anhang (German for Bach works catalogue annex), is a list of lost, doubtful, and spurious compositions by, or once attributed to, Johann Sebastian Bach.

Title page of the 1805 edition of the Kyrie–Gloria Mass for double choir, BWV Anh. 167 – at that moment attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach.[1]

History

See also: List of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach § BWV, and Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis § History

First edition of the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (1950)

In 1950 the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis was published, allocating 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):[2]

  1. Kantaten (Cantatas), BWV 1–224
  2. Motetten (Motets), BWV 225–231
  3. Messen, Messensätze, Magnificat (Masses, Mass movements, Magnificat), BWV 232–243
  4. Passionen, Oratorien (Passions, Oratorios), BWV 244–249
  5. Vierstimmige Choräle (Four-part chorales), BWV 250–438
  6. Lieder, Arien, Quodlibet (Songs, Arias and Quodlibet), BWV 439–524
  7. Werke für Orgel (Works for organ), BWV 525–771
  8. Werke für Klavier (Keyboard compositions), BWV 772–994
  9. Werke für Laute (Lute compositions), BWV 995–1000
  10. Kammermusik (Chamber music), BWV 1001–1040
  11. Orchesterwerke (Works for orchestra), BWV 1041–1071, originally in two separate chapters: Concertos (BWV 1041–1065) and Overtures (BWV 1066–1071)
  12. Kanons (Canons), BWV 1072–1078
  13. Musikalisches Opfer, Kunst der Fuge (Musical Offering, Art of the Fugue), BWV 1079–1080

The Anhang of the BWV listed works that were not suitable for 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.

Second edition of the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (1990 and 1998)

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. A strict numerical collation was abandoned to insert additions, or when for another reason compositions were regrouped. Authenticity discriminations, based on new research, could lead to such repositionings within the catalogue, e.g. "BWV Anh. II 114" became "BWV Anh. 114 / Anh. III 183→" indicating it was now considered a spurious work.[3]

In 1998 Alfred Dürr and Yoshitake Kobayashi published a small edition of the catalogue, based on the 1990 second edition. This edition, known as BWV2a, contained a few further updates and collation rearrangements.[4]

New additions (Nachträge) to BWV2/BWV2a included:

A few exceptions to the principle that compositions weren't renumbered were when a composition from the Anhang could be recovered and/or authenticated as Bach's, so that it deserved a place in the main catalogue, in which case it was given a number above 1080. So, for example, BWV Anh. 205 (BWV2) → BWV 1121 (BWV2a, where it is in section 7 as a work for organ).[5]

Other renumberings and additional numbers involved alternative or earlier versions of basically the same composition, which were indicated by adding a lower case letter to the BWV number. For example, BWV Anh. 198 was renumbered to BWV 149/1a (earlier abandoned version of the opening movement of Cantata BWV 149)

Slashes indicate movements: e.g. BWV 149/1 indicates the first movement of the Cantata BWV 149. Another example: the Agnus Dei of the Mass in B minor can be indicated as BWV 232/22 (22nd movement of the composition), or alternatively as BWV 232IV/4 (BWV 232, fourth movement of Part IV).

Bachs Notenbibliothek (1992)

Kirsten Beißwenger [scores] published Bachs Notenbibliothek (BNB) in 1992. As a compendium of works in Bach's musical library, it listed as well Bach's own compositions, as works by other composers of which Bach owned a copy. Several compositions of this latter group are listed in the BWV Anh. (mostly Anh. III). For example, the Kyrie–Gloria Mass for double choir, BWV Anh. 167, is listed as BNB I/An/3 in Beißwenger's catalogue.[6][7]

21st century

As of mid-2018 the Bach Digital website started to implement the new numbers of the next edition of the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis. The editors of this third edition of the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (projected to be published in 2020) recognise that the BWV Anh. has become largely unworkable, calling for a new approach.[8]

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