List of transcriptions of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach

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

Bach's lifetime

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

• Sonatas and partitas for solo violin, BWV 1001–1006
• Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041
• Violin Concerto in E major, BWV 1042
• Double Violin Concerto (Bach), BWV 1043
• Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 (suspected to be a transcription of a violin original, by Bach himself or another composer).

Classical era

• Working at the behest of Gottfried van Swieten, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart arranged some of the fugues from The Well-Tempered Clavier for string quartet (K. 405).^[1] His K. 404a contains transcriptions for string trio of a few more fugues from The Well-Tempered Clavier and of some other works by Bach.^[2]
• Ludwig van Beethoven arranged Fugue No. 22 in B-flat minor, BWV 867/2, from the Well-Tempered Clavier book 1, for string quintet (Hess 38 [commons]).^[3]

Romantic era

• Ferruccio Busoni made a piano transcription of the chaconne from the Violin Partita No. 2 in D minor, as did Johannes Brahms and others. For more Bach transcriptions by Busoni, see:
  • List of adaptations by Ferruccio Busoni#Transcriptions (BV B 20 to 115)
  • Bach-Busoni Editions
• Charles Gounod's Ave Maria is based on Prelude No. 1 of Book I of The Well-Tempered Clavier.
• Francisco Tárrega transcribed a variety of Bach works, including his Fugue from Violin Sonata No. 1, BWV 1001
• Franz Liszt arranged Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 543, Prelude and Fugue in B minor, BWV 544, Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 545, Prelude and Fugue in C minor, BWV 546, Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 547, Prelude and Fugue in E minor, BWV 548, Great Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542, and Movement 2 of Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, BWV 12 (also the same as the Crucifixus from the Mass in B minor BWV 232) for piano, and Movement 3 of the Violin Sonata in C minor, BWV 1017, the same music mentioned above from Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, BWV 12, the Introduction and Fugue from Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis, BWV 21, and the Andante from Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir, BWV 38 for Organ or Harmonium.
  • See Franz Liszt's treatments of the works of other composers#Johann Sebastian Bach
• Edward MacDowell (1860–1908) produced "Six Little Pieces after sketches by J. S. Bach" (1890) for piano solo.

20th century

Sonata in G minor BWV 1001 Presto

Arranged for alto saxophone, performed by David Hernando Vitores (1:49)