Works For Harpsichord
- List of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach - Works for harpsichord
- Harpsichord concertos (J. S. Bach)
- English Suites, BWV 806-811
- French Suites, BWV 812-817
- Partitas, BWV 825-830
- The Goldberg Variations BWV 988
- The Well Tempered Clavier, BWV 846-893, two books of 24 Preludes and Fugues, each in a different key
- The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080, a set of fourteen (unfinished) fugues and canons
Bach wrote widely for the harpsichord, producing numerous inventions, suites, fugues, partitas, overtures, as well as keyboard arrangements of music originally scored for other instruments.
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