Bach’s Vocal Works:
A List of Movements with Solo Violin(s)
II = second version
* = included in Wulfhorst (ed.), Violin Solos from the Sacred Vocal Works, Bärenreiter, 1996
The list includes;
• parts marked “violino solo” or “violino concertato”
• parts that Bach originally composed for another instrument (e.g., viola d’amore in the St. John Passion) but assigned to a solo violin in a later version
• parts marked “violino” but obviously intended for a solo violin or assigned to a solo violin for a particular performance
• parts for violino piccolo.
Not included were portions from the first-violin parts of arias or choruses that might have been intended for soloistic performance.
Sacred Cantatas
1/1 Chorus 2 vns. solo
1/5 Aria 2 vns. solo
2/3 Aria
5/3 Aria probably vn. solo
7/1 Chorus 2 vns. solo unisono (illustrates "Jordan")
7/4 Aria 2 vns. solo
8II/1 Chorus 2 vn. conc. instead of 2 ob.d'am.
8II/2 Aria instead of Ob.d'am
9/3 Aria (illustrates "gesunken")
13/5 Aria 2 vns. solo unison with 2 fl. (illustrates "Seufzer")
26/2 Aria fl. solo, vn. solo (partially unison)
29/3 Aria (illustrates "Halleluja")
30a/8 Aria ob. d’am, vn. conc. (occas), str.
30/8 Aria
*32/3 Aria in Wulfhorst 1996
36a/7 Aria fl., vn. solo (partially unison)
36a/7 Aria “vn.”
36b/3 Aria instead of ob. (NBA)
36/7 Aria “vn. solo con sordino"
37/2 Aria [reconstructed]
39/3 Aria "ob. 1, vn. solo”
42/6 Aria 2 "vI div"
43/7 Aria "tr. 1 solo ossia VI"
47/2 Aria "vn. solo" (organ in later versions)
47/4 Aria "ob., vn."
*51/4 Chorus 2 vns. solo in Wulfhorst 1996
*57/7 Aria “vn. solo” in Wulfhorst 1996
58/3 Aria "vn. solo"
59/4 Aria "vn. solo"
60/3 Duet "Ob. d’am. 1, vn. solo”
66/5 [Duetto] "vn. solo"
68/2b/m. 53 Aria ritornello BWV 1040 “ob. 1, vn. 1, vc. picc.”
69/3 Aria “ob. 1, v. 1" (solo”)
*74/7 Aria ob. da caccia 1-2, vn. solo, str. in Wulfhorst 1996
76/3 Aria "vn. solo"
80/7 Duetto "ob. da caccia, vn. solo"
83/1 Aria not in NBA
83/3 Aria not in NBA
84/3 Aria "ob., vn. solo"
*86/2 Aria "vn. solo" in Wulfhorst 1996
96II/1 Chorus "vn. picc" (instead of fl. picc.)
*97/4 Aria "vn. solo" in Wulfhorst 1996
101/2 Aria "vn. solo" (discarded version for fl.)
102II/5 Aria "vn. picc." (instead of fl.; compare BWV 233/5)
103II/1 [Chorus] "vn. conc. ou trav." (instead of fl. picc.)
103/3 Aria "vn. conc. ou trav." (instead of fl. picc.)
105/5 Aria corno, str. (vn. 1 probably solo)
*108/2 Aria "vn. solo" in Wulfhorst 1996
113/2 [Chorus] "vn."
117/6 Versus 6 "vn. solo"
*120/4 Aria "vn. conc.” str. in Wulfhorst 1996
125/4 Aria 2vn. solo (not in NBA)
129/3 Aria "fl. tr., vn. solo"
132/5 Aria "vn. solo”
137/2 Aria "vn. solo”
139/2 Aria 2 vn. conc. (2nd reconstructed; not NBA)
*140/3 Duetto "vn. picc." in Wulfhorst 1996
143/2 Chorus "vn."
145/3 Duetto "vn. solo"
146/3 Aria organo or vn. solo (not in NAB
*147/5 Aria vn. solo in Wulfhorst 1996
148/2 [Aria] "vn. solo"
157/1 Duetto "fl., ob. d’am., vn. solo”
157/4 Aria "fl, vn. solo"
*158/2 Aria "vn. solo" in Wulfhorst 1996
166/2 Aria ob., vn. solo (reconstructed)
171/2 Aria "vn. 1, vn. 2" (solo)
*171/4 Aria "vn. solo" (see BWV 205/9) in Wulfhorst 1996
177/1 Chorus "vn. concertino solo"
177/4 [Versus] 4 "vn. concertino"
181/3 Aria reconstructed (not in NBA)
182/1 Sinfonia not in NBA
184/4 Aria "vn. solo"
190/5 Duet "ob. d’am. o vn. solo"
197/8 Aria "vn. solo, ob. d’am. 1–2"
doubtful
12/5
31/6
33/3
74/5
108/5
134/4
172/5
Secular Cantatas
202/5 Aria "vn. solo"
204/4 Aria "vn. solo"
205/9 Aria "vn. solo"
206/5 Aria "vn. solos"
208/12 Duetto "vn. solo"
208/13 see BWV 68 and 1040
210/4 Aria "Ob. d’am., vn.”
213/7 Aria "Ob, vn. solo" (see BWV 284)
Masses
[BWV 232 = Mass in B minor]
*232/6 Laudamus “vn. solo”, str. in Wulfhorst 1996
232/23 Benedictus instead of fl. (not in NBA)
233/5 Quoniam "vn. solo" (see BWV 102/5)
234/3 Domine "vn. solo"
Passions, Oratorios
[BWV 244 = St. Matthew Passion]
*244/39 (47) Aria "vn. solo" (Orch. 1) in Wulfhorst 1996
*244/42 (52) Aria "vn. solo" (Orch. 2) in Wulfhorst 1996
[BWV 245 = St. John Passion]
245/19–20 Recit.-Aria 2 vn. solo con sord. (instead of 2 viola d’amore)
[BWV 248 = Christmas Oratorio]
*248/III/31 Aria "vn. solo" in Wulfhorst 1996
*248/IV/41 Aria “vn. solo 1–2" in Wulfhorst 1996
*248/V Terzetto "vn. solo" in Wulfhorst 1996
[BWV 249 = Easter Oratorio]
249/5 Aria "fl. tr. o vn. solo" (score)
Instrumental Movements
1040 Ritornello "ob., vn., cont.” (see BWV 68/2 und 208/13)
1045 Sinfonia "vn. conc.”
Bach • Violin Solos
from the Cantatas, Masses, Passions, and Oratorios