Keyboard works (Klavierwerke) by Johann Sebastian Bach traditionally refers to Chapter 8 in the BWV catalogue or the fifth series of the New Bach Edition, both of which list compositions for a solo keyboard instrument like the harpsichord or the clavichord. 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). Also other compositions for keyboard, like compositions for lute-harpsichord and fortepiano were listed outside the "Klavierwerke" range by Schmieder. Lute works are in the range 995–1000, Chapter 9 in the BWV catalogue.

Works for keyboard (BWV 772–994)

Inventions and Sinfonias (772–801)

Four Duets from Clavier-Übung III (802–805)

English Suites (806–811)

French Suites (812–817)

Miscellaneous suites (818–824)

Clavier-Übung I: Partitas for keyboard (825–830)

Clavier-Übung I, six Partitas for keyboard:

French Overture, from Clavier-Übung II (831)

Suites and suite movements (832–845)

The Well-Tempered Clavier (846–893)

The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II:

Preludes and fugues, toccatas and fantasias (894–923)

Nine Little Preludes from Wilhelm Friedemann Bach's Klavierbüchlein (924–932)

Indicated as "Neun kleine Präludien aus dem Klavierbüchlein für Wilhelm Friedemann Bach" (nine little preludes from the keyboard-booklet for Wilhelm Friedemann Bach) in the Bach-Werke Verzeichnis: BWV 924a – Prelude in C major (Klavierbüchlein No. 26: "Preludium ex c♮"; variant version of BWV 924 probably by W. F. Bach, BR‑WFB A 44)

Six Little Preludes (933–938)

An 18th-century set of short preludes by Johann Sebastian Bach:

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Five short preludes found in the manuscript P 804 (collection of Johann Peter Kellner):

Fugues and fughettas (944–962)

Sonatas and sonata movements (963–970)

Italian Concerto, from Clavier-Übung II (971)

Keyboard arrangements of concerti by other composers (972–987)

Variations and miscellaneous pieces for keyboard (988–994)

Works for solo lute (BWV 995–1000)

Works for keyboard and lute in the eighth and ninth chapters of the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (1998)

132: 3 132: 16 132: 30 132: 41 132: 53 132: 68 132: 89 132: 94 132: 100 36: 237 132: 100 132: 106 451: 106 132: 108 132: 112 132: 120

Other keyboard and lute compositions

Canons (BWV 1072–1078)

Late contrapuntal works (BWV 1079–1080)

Spurious and doubtful works in Anna Magdalena's Notebooks (BWV Anh. 113–132)

Piano transcriptions

Sources