Bach FAQ 63

What Is the "Bach Werke Verzeichnis"?..

Bach’s work was very confusing at the beginning of the renewed interest in him, after Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy had “revived” people’s memory of him. And above all, it was disorganized. The Bach Works Catalog (... Bach Werke-Verzeichnis) was then the first systematic classification of Bach’s compositions. Today, there are other efforts to make the composer’s body of work more accessible … in addition to the Bach Works Catalog. However, the BBW remains by far the best-known catalog.

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