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[3] [4] Mt. Vernon horns can be identified by the Bach manufacturing stamp listing Mount Vernon NY on the second valve casing along with the bore letter code and serial number. [ 4 ] At first, the instruments built at the new factory were identical to the bulk of what had been produced the few years before These were typified by the same wrap ...
The first comprehensive catalogue was that by Alfred Wotquenne first published in 1905, [1] and this led to Wq. numbers being used. In 1989, E. Eugene Helm produced a revised catalogue, and H numbers are now also used. The catalogue assignment numbers listed here conform to an accepted concordance found between Wq. numbers [1] and H numbers. [2]
Bach's autograph of the 4th Fugue of Book 1 Bach's autograph of Fugue No. 17 in A ♭ major from the second part of Das Wohltemperirte Clavier. Each set contains 24 pairs of prelude and fugue. The first pair is in C major, the second in C minor, the third in C ♯ major, the fourth in C ♯ minor, and so on.
Compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach printed during his lifetime (1685–1750) include works for keyboard instruments, such as his Clavier-Übung volumes for harpsichord and for organ, and to a lesser extent ensemble music, such as the trio sonata of The Musical Offering, and vocal music, such as a cantata published early in his career.
New Bach Edition (German: Neue Bach-Ausgabe, NBA): Roman numerals for the series, followed by a slash, and the volume number in Arabic numerals. A page number, after a colon, refers to the "Score" part of the volume. Without such page number, the composition is only described in the "Critical Commentary" part of the volume.
Despite the fact that the organ is also a keyboard instrument, and that in Bach's time the distinction wasn't always made whether a keyboard composition was for organ or another keyboard instrument, Wolfgang Schmieder ranged organ compositions in a separate section of the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (Nos. 525-771).
Since his death, three attempts—two full and one partial—have been made at cataloguing. The first, and still most widely used, is András Szőllősy's chronological Sz numbers, from 1 to 121. Denijs Dille subsequently reorganised the juvenilia (Sz. 1–25) thematically, as DD numbers 1 to 77.
I (lost works) of BWV 1 (1950 first edition of the BWV) preceded by II: in Anh. II (doubtful works) of BWV 1; preceded by III: in Anh. III (spurious works) of BWV 1; preceded by N: new Anh. numbers in BWV 2 (1990) and/or BWV 2a (1998) 2 2a: Section in which the composition appears in BWV 2a: Chapters of the main catalogue indicated by Arabic ...