List of compositions by Dieterich Buxtehude

The only surviving portrait of Buxtehude, playing a viol, from A musical party by Johannes Voorhout (1674)

The Buxtehude-Werke-Verzeichnis ("Buxtehude Works Catalogue", commonly abbreviated to BuxWV) is the catalogue and the numbering system used to identify musical works by the German-Danish Baroque composer Dieterich Buxtehude (c. 1637 – 9 May 1707). It was compiled by Georg Karstädt and published in 1974 as Thematisch-Systematisches Verzeichnis der Musikalischen Werke von Dietrich Buxtehude. The second edition, published in 1985, contains minor additions and corrections. The catalogue is organized thematically, not chronologically, and contains 275 individual pieces. The Anhang ("Appendix") adds 13 spurious and falsely attributed works.

The fourteen trio sonatas (BuxWV 252–265) were the only works published during Buxtehude's lifetime. Originally issued in two volumes, the first seven are now commonly referred to as Buxtehude's opus 1 and the next seven as opus 2.

Vocal music

Cantatas (1–112)

Miscellaneous vocal music (113–135)

Liturgical works (113–114)

  • BuxWV 113 — Motet 'Benedicam Dominum in omni tempore'
  • BuxWV 114 — Missa brevis

Wedding arias (115–122)

  • BuxWV 115 — Aria 'Auf, Saiten, auf! Lasst euren Schall erklingen!'
  • BuxWV 116 — Aria 'Auf, stimmet die Saiten, Gott Phoebus tritt ein'
  • BuxWV 117 — Aria 'Deh credete il vostro vanto'
  • BuxWV 118 — Aria 'Gestreuet mit Bleumen'
  • BuxWV 119 — Aria 'Klinget fur Freuden, ihr larmen Klarinen'
  • BuxWV 120 — Aria 'O fröhliche Stunden, o herrlicher Tag'
  • BuxWV 121 — Aria 'Opachi boschetti' (fragment of a lost wedding serenade)
  • BuxWV 122 — Aria 'Schlagt, Künstler, die Pauken und Saiten'

Canons (123–124)

  • BuxWV 123 — Canon duplex per Augmentationem
  • BuxWV 124 — Canon à 3 in Epidiapente et Epidiapason

Titles of works not preserved (125–127)

  • BuxWV 125 — Motet 'Christum lieb haben ist viel besser' (lost)
  • BuxWV 126 — Musik zur Einweihung des Fredenhagen-Altars (lost)
  • BuxWV 127 — Motet 'Pallidi salvete' (lost)

Abendmusiken (128–135)

  • BuxWV 128 — Die Hochzeit des Lammes / Und die Freudenvolle Einholung der Braut zu derselben (lost)
  • BuxWV 129 — Das allerschröcklichste und Allererfreulichste, nemlich Ende der Zeit und Anfang der Ewigkeit (lost)
  • BuxWV 130 — Himmlische Seelenlust auf Erden (lost)
  • BuxWV 131 — Der verlorene Sohn (lost)
  • BuxWV 132 — Hundertjähriges Gedicht (lost)
  • BuxWV 133 — Die Abendmusiken des Jahres 1700
  • BuxWV 134 — Castrum Doloris (lost)
  • BuxWV 135 — Templum Honoris (lost)

Organ (or other keyboard) works (136–225)

Freely composed (136–176)

Note: Buxtehude preludes are multi-sectional and do not fit Bach-related terms such as "prelude and fugue" (despite this use by record companies); to make the distinction the German word "Praeludium" is conventional. Typical Buxtehude preludes begin free-style, switch to fugue, and then alternate between these forms, for a total of five to seven sections, two or three of which are fugues. The free-style sections are usually toccata-like.

Toccatas

  • BuxWV 155 — Toccata (with Fugal Sections) in D minor
  • BuxWV 156 — Toccata (with Fugal Sections) in F
  • BuxWV 157 — Toccata and Fugue in F

Ostinato works

Other pedaliter work

  • BuxWV 158 — Praeambulum in A minor – this is an early work, c. 1660

Manualiter works (i.e. no pedal)

  • BuxWV 162 — Praeludium in G for Harpsichord (or Organ)
  • BuxWV 163 — Praeludium (Toccatas and 3 Fugues) in G minor for Harpsichord (or Organ)
  • BuxWV 164 — Toccata (with Fugue) in G for Harpsichord (or Organ)
  • BuxWV 165 — Toccata (with Fugue) in G for Harpsichord (or Organ)
  • BuxWV 166 — Canzona (with Fugues) in C for Harpsichord (or Organ)
  • BuxWV 167 — Canzonetta in C for Harpsichord (or Organ)
  • BuxWV 168 — Canzonetta in D minor for Harpsichord (or Organ)
  • BuxWV 169 — Canzonetta in E minor for Harpsichord (or Organ)
  • BuxWV 170 — Canzona (with Fugues) in G for Harpsichord (or Organ)
  • BuxWV 171 — Canzonetta in G for Harpsichord (or Organ)
  • BuxWV 172 — Canzonetta in G for Harpsichord (or Organ)
  • BuxWV 173 — Canzonetta in G minor for Harpsichord (or Organ)
  • BuxWV 174 — Fugue (Gigue) in C for Harpsichord
  • BuxWV 175 — Fugue in G for Harpsichord
  • BuxWV 176 — Fugue in B♭ for Harpsichord

Chorale preludes (177–224, including Magnificats and the Te Deum)

Buxtehude composed chorale preludes on the following hymns:

Canzonetta for keyboard or organ (225)

The keyboard canzonetta in A minor, BuxWV 225, was found just before the publication and therefore could not be inserted in the catalogue properly. This is why it does not appear with other canzonas and canzonettas and is in the end of the list of organ works.

Works for harpsichord (226–251)

Suites for harpsichord (226–244)

Variations and miscellaneous works for harpsichord (245–251)

Chamber music (252–275)

Appendix (Anh. 1–13)

Doubtful works (1–8)

Falsely attributed works (9–13)

Literature