The List of chorale harmonisations by Johann Sebastian Bach consists of 189 chorales by Johann Sebastian Bach which have been assigned the numbers 250–438 in the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (BWV), the catalogue of Bach's works by Wolfgang Schmieder. There are many more chorale harmonisations to be found in Bach's cantatas, motets, passions and in his collection Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach, but the works in this list are not attached to any larger work or that larger work has been lost. Almost all of the melodies of these chorales are not by Bach but go back to older sources.
Another well known collection of chorale melodies is the Schemellis Gesangbuch (Schemelli's Hymnal), or Geistliche Lieder (Sacred Songs), published in 1736 by Georg Christian Schemelli (c. 1678–1762). These are not four-part harmonisations like the ones in this list but chorale melodies and a basso continuo; again, almost none of those melodies are by Bach.
The composer and musicologist Johann Kirnberger (1721–1783) compiled a list of chorale preludes: see BWV 690–713.
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