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Organ Works (Bach, Johann Sebastian), Orgelwerke (Bach, Johann Sebastian): Scores at the International Music Score Library Project. Accessed: 09:23, 3 April 2016 (UTC). James Kibbie – Bach Organ Works: free downloads of the complete organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach, recorded by James Kibbie on original baroque organs in Germany. Accessed ...
English: "On the Transcription of Bach's Organ-works for the Pianoforte", First Appendix to Volume I of Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavichord, pp. 154–190, by Ferruccio B. Busoni. New York: G. Schirmer, 1894.
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.
Leopold Stokowski made a large number of transcriptions for full orchestra, including the Toccata and Fugue in D minor for organ, which appeared in the film Fantasia and the Little Fugue in G minor. Alexander Siloti made many piano transcriptions of Bach, most famously his Prelude in B minor based on Bach's Prelude in E minor, BWV 855a.
The Clavier-Übung III, sometimes referred to as the German Organ Mass, is a collection of compositions for organ by Johann Sebastian Bach, started in 1735–36 and published in 1739. It is considered Bach's most significant and extensive work for organ, containing some of his most musically complex and technically demanding compositions for ...
Despite this, there was still much confusion. Some authors preferred to list Bach's works according to Novello's editions, or Augener's, or Schirmer's, giving rise to various conversion tables at the end of books on Bach's compositions (e.g. Harvey Grace's in a 1922 book on Bach's organ compositions).
The court chapel at the Schloss in Weimar where Bach was court organist. The organ loft is visible at the top of the picture. The Orgelbüchlein (Little Organ Book) BWV 599−644 is a set of 46 chorale preludes for organ – one of them is given in two versions – by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Although Bach created a unique compositional genre in this collection of sonatas, the roots of the organ trio can be traced back to the works of earlier composers and some of Bach's own earlier compositions for organ. Bach had in his possession many organ works by seventeenth century French organists such as Boyvin, Clérambault, Grigny ...