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Anh. Appendix Numbers

Appendix numbers in German catalogues, used for lost, doubtful and misattributed works

BWVBWV Anh. Bach Appendix

Anh. is short for Anhang, the German word for appendix, and appears in several German-language catalogues. An appendix does not hold finished works from the main series but lost, fragmentary, doubtful, misattributed or arranged pieces; its numbers form a separate run.

It is not a chronology, and it is not a rank. In BWV Anh. the entries fall into three groups: works lost or surviving only in fragments, works of uncertain authorship, and works once given to Bach but now assigned elsewhere. The B-A-C-H Fugue, BWV Anh. 45, was long ascribed to Bach and is now credited to Justin Heinrich Knecht; Buxtehude's appendix holds thirteen spurious pieces.

As research changes, a work can move between an appendix, a main catalogue or another composer's list, while the old number survives on recordings. Anh. records status of attribution, not date or quality.

Sources

  • 德奥作品目录中 Anhang 的用法，参 The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, "Bach, Johann Sebastian" 与 "Buxtehude, Dieterich"；目录本体分别参 BWV 与 BuxWV；本文为原创表述

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