How many pieces did Johann Sebastian Bach compose??????????????!

Question: According to the 1990 edition of Wolfgang Schmieder's authoritative Thematisch-systematisches Verzeichnis der Musikalischen Werke von Johann Sebastian Bach, Bach-Werke-Verzeichnes (BWV), there are 1120 works plus various bits and pieces, fragments, misattributions, etc., listed in the Anhangs at the end of the book. Occasionally a new manuscript comes to light, but you're pretty safe if you say about 1120.

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Answers: According to the 1990 edition of Wolfgang Schmieder's authoritative Thematisch-systematisches Verzeichnis der Musikalischen Werke von Johann Sebastian Bach, Bach-Werke-Verzeichnes (BWV), there are 1120 works plus various bits and pieces, fragments, misattributions, etc., listed in the Anhangs at the end of the book. Occasionally a new manuscript comes to light, but you're pretty safe if you say about 1120.

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wiki says that he had over 1000

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Much of Bach's music was lost because the only manuscripts were used to wrap fish, and were ruined. Such a shame.

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1120

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