Content
The edition contains in eight series 96 Notenbände (music volumes), in addition Kritische Berichte (Critical Reports) and Supplementbände (supplementing volumes):
- I. Cantatas (46 volumes)
- II. Masses, Passions, Oratorios (9 volumes)
- III. Motets, chorales, Lieder (4 volumes)
- IV. Organ works (11 volumes)
- V. Keyboard works and lute works (14 volumes)
- VI. Chamber music (5 volumes)
- VII. Orchestral works (7 volumes)
- VIII. Canons, The Musical Offering, The Art of Fugue (2 volumes)
- IX. Addenda (approximately 7 volumes)
- Supplement, Bach Documents (9 volumes)
Each volume of music contains a preface and a selection of facsimiles of its sources. For each such volume, a separate Critical Report describes all sources of a work and their interdependence, presents all reliable information about the history of a composition and discusses editorial issues. Fragments of compositions were published along with complete works.
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