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BuxWV Buxtehude Works Catalogue

Karstädt's Buxtehude catalogue, arranged by genre, so the number says nothing about when a work was written

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BuxWV is the Buxtehude-Werke-Verzeichnis number, compiled by Georg Karstädt in 1974 and revised in 1985. It lists 275 works, with 13 doubtful pieces in an appendix. The order is by genre: vocal music first, organ works next, then keyboard suites and chamber music.

The number does not mark when a work was written. BuxWV 75, the cantata cycle Membra Jesu nostri, and BuxWV 161, the D minor Passacaglia, are neighbours on the shelf but not in time, and even within a genre the order is not strictly chronological.

A work may carry a second name. The fourteen trio sonatas were the only music Buxtehude published in his lifetime; the first seven are often called Op. 1, the next seven Op. 2, and all now sit at BuxWV 252–265. BuxWV identifies the piece, not the year.

Sources

  • 布克斯特胡德 BuxWV 的编排与范围，参 The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, "Buxtehude, Dieterich"；目录本体参 Georg Karstädt, Thematisch-systematisches Verzeichnis der musikalischen Werke von Dietrich Buxtehude（1974，1985 修订）；本文为原创表述

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