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This is a sortable list of Bach cantatas, the cantatas composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. His almost 200 extant cantatas are among his important vocal compositions. Many are known to be lost. Bach composed both church cantatas, most of them for specific occasions of the liturgical year of the Lutheran Church, and secular cantatas.
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The cantatas composed by Johann Sebastian Bach, known as...
- Chorale cantata (Bach)
There are 52 chorale cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach...
- Johann Sebastian Bach
Bach's cantatas vary greatly in form and instrumentation....
- Bach's early cantatas
Bach's early cantatas are "Choralkonzerte" (chorale...
- Bach cantata
Extant secular cantatas are published in the New Bach Edition (Neue Bach-Ausgabe, NBA), Series I, volumes 35 to 40, with the two Italian cantatas included in volume 41. The Bach Digital website lists 50 secular cantatas by Bach. Less than half of Bach's known secular cantatas survive with music.
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Jun 12, 2018 · Advertisement. Bach's greatest cantata hits. Bach never wrote an opera, but his sacred cantatas are pure music drama that give a fascinating insight into what moved the masses in his day....