What are the best works of Bach?

Home » features » The ten best Bach works – a beginner’s list If music has a holy trinity the three names would probably be Bach, Mozart and Beethoven, but if that already shortest of short lists is reduced to just one, the answer, in the words of Dylan Thomas’s Organ Morgan, is ‘Bach is best’. read more

Works in Bach's catalogues and collections. There are over 1500 works that feature in a catalogue of works by Bach, like the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis, and/or in a collection of works associated with Bach (e.g. in one of the Notebooks for Anna Magdalena Bach). read more

In that sense and answering your question and yes, objectively, I can tell you what the major works of Johann Sebastian Bach, determined by renowned musicologists and by the spread and reputation of each are. read more