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List of transcriptions of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach

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Johann Sebastian Bach's music has often been transcribed for other instruments.

Bach's lifetime

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Bach himself was an inveterate transcriber of his works for other musical forces. For example:

Classical era

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Romantic era

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20th century

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21st century

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  • Luciano Berio arranged Bach's Contrapunktus XIX from Die Kunst der Fuge for 23 players (2001).

References

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  1. ^ Köchel, Ludwig Ritter von (1862). Chronologisch-thematisches Verzeichniss sämmtlicher Tonwerke Wolfgang Amade Mozart's (in German). Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel. OCLC 3309798. Alt URL, No. 405, pp. 328–329
  2. ^ Preludes and Fugues, K.404a: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
  3. ^ "Hess 38" is Beethoven's arrangement of "Book 1 – Fugue No. 22 in B flat minor" (BWV 867).