List of masses, passions and oratorios by Johann Sebastian Bach

• Chapter 3: Messen, Messensätze, Magnificat, original range: BWV 232–243
• Chapter 4: Passionen, Oratorien, original range: BWV 244–249

Masses, mass movements and Magnificat

Mass with all usual sections

• BWV 232 – Mass in B minor

  Kyrie–Gloria masses

• BWV 232^I, early version – Missa in B minor for the Dresden court, re-used as part I of the Mass in B minor
• BWV 233 – Missa in F major
• BWV 234 – Missa in A major
• BWV 235 – Missa in G minor
• BWV 236 – Missa in G major

  Cantata based on BWV 232^I

• BWV 191 – Cantata Gloria in excelsis Deo

  Separate mass movements

• BWV 232^II, early version – Credo in G major
• BWV 232^III, early version – Sanctus for six vocal parts
• BWV 233a –
• BWV 237 – Sanctus in C major
• BWV 238 – Sanctus in D major
• BWV 239 – Sanctus in D minor
• BWV 240 – Sanctus in G major
• BWV 241 – Sanctus in D major
• BWV 242 – Christe eleison in G minor

  Latin Magnificat

• BWV 243 – Magnificat in D major
• BWV 243a – Magnificat in E-flat major, early version of BWV 243, containing four Latin and German interpolations related to Christmas

  German Magnificat cantatas

• BWV 10 – Meine Seel erhebt den Herren
• BWV 189 – Meine Seele rühmt und preist on a German paraphrase of the Magnificat text, attributed to Melchior Hoffmann.
• BWV Anh. 21 – Meine Seel erhebt den Herren, by Melchior Hoffmann.

  Other

• BWV 1081 – Credo intonation in F major for a Mass by Giovanni Battista Bassani, BDW
• BWV 1082 – Bach's copy of the Suscepit Israel of Antonio Caldara's Magnificat in C major.
• BWV 1083 – Tilge, Höchster, meine Sünden, Bach's adaptation of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater.
• BWV Anh. 24 – Kyrie and Gloria in A minor from "Missa Sancti Lamberti" by Johann Christoph Pez; Bach copied its Kyrie in Weimar, adding a line different from the original continuo; Its Gloria was copied without modification in Leipzig.
• BWV Anh. 25 – Kyrie–Gloria Mass in C major.
• BWV Anh. 26 –
• BWV Anh. 27 – Sanctus in F major by Johann Ludwig Krebs.
• BWV Anh. 28 – Sanctus in B major.
• BWV Anh. 29 – continuo part for a Mass in C minor
• BWV Anh. 30 – Magnificat in C major for SSAATTBB choir and orchestra attributed to Antonio Lotti, and later to Pietro Torri
• BWV Anh. 166 – Missa super cantilena "Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr": Kyrie–Gloria Mass in E minor composed in 1716 by Johann Ludwig Bach, previously attributed to Johann Nicolaus Bach, with part scores written out by J. S. Bach and others for performance in 1729, and a small addition by J. S. Bach at the beginning of the Gloria. The text of the Gloria is partly in German: it intersperses the Latin text of the Gloria with, as cantus firmus, all four stanzas of "Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr", a Lutheran hymn by Nicolaus Decius and Joachim Slüter.
• BWV Anh. 167 – Kyrie–Gloria Mass in G major for double SATB choir and orchestra, possibly by Johann Ludwig Bach or Antonio Lotti. One of its 18th-century manuscript copies is partially in J. S. Bach's handwriting. Published and performed as J. S. Bach's in 1805.
• BWV Anh. 168 – Kyrie composed by Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, BDW
• BWV deest – Bach's transposition from D minor to E minor and colla parte orchestration for the first two movements of Palestrina's, to be performed in Leipzig in the early 1740s as a.

  Passions and oratorios

Passions composed by Bach

• BWV 244 – St Matthew Passion
• * BWV 244b – St Matthew Passion, early version
• BWV 245 – St John Passion, various versions, including:
• * St. John Passion, 2nd version, with opening chorus "O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde groß", BDW, containing:
• ** BWV 245a – Aria "Himmel reiße, Welt erbebe"
• ** BWV 245b – Aria "Zerschmettert mich, ihr Felsen und ihr Hügel"
• ** BWV 245c – Aria "Ach, windet euch nicht so, geplagte Seelen"
• * St. John Passion, Bach's last revision, BDW
• BWV 247 – St Mark Passion
• BWV deest – Weimarer Passion, BDW

  Passions by other composers with movements by Bach

• BWV 246 – St Luke Passion by an unknown composer and librettist, includes one movement by Bach:
• * BWV 246/40a – Chorale "Aus der Tiefen rufe ich", BDW
• BWV deest – St Mark Passion, surviving in various versions, with three movements associated with Bach:
• * BWV 500a – Chorale "So gehst du nun, mein Jesu, hin", BDW
• * BWV 1084 – Chorale "O hilf Christe, Gottes Sohn", BDW, and earlier version BDW
• * BWV deest – Chorale "O Traurigkeit, o Herzeleid", BDW, and earlier version BDW
• BWV deest – Passion oratorio Wer ist der, so von Edom kömmt, with three movements associated with Bach:
• * BWV 127/1 – Chorus "Herr Jesu Christ, wahr' Mensch und Gott", BDW
• * BWV 1088 – Arioso "So heb ich denn mein Auge sehnlich auf", BDW
• * BWV deest – Chorus "Der Gerechte kömmt um", also as separate motet, BDW

  Other vocal compositions associated with Passion music

• BWV 244a – Trauermusik Klagt, Kinder, klagt es aller Welt, music lost but largely reconstructable based on BWV 244b and 198
• BWV 200 – Aria "Bekennen will ich seinen Namen", arranged by Bach from a Passion oratorio by Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, BDW

  Spurious

• BWV Anh. 169 – Passion text Erbauliche Gedanken auf den Grünen Donnerstag und Charfreitag über den Leidenden Jesum by Picander, not set by Bach

  Oratorios and associated cantatas

• BWV 248 – Christmas Oratorio, consisting of six cantatas composed for the Christmas season of 1734–1735:
• * BWV 248^I – Cantata Jauchzet, frohlocket! Auf, preiset die Tage
• * BWV 248^II – Cantata Und es waren Hirten in derselben Gegend
• * BWV 248^III – Cantata Herrscher des Himmels, erhöre das Lallen
• * BWV 248^IV – Cantata Fallt mit Danken, fallt mit Loben
• * BWV 248^V – Cantata Ehre sei dir, Gott, gesungen
• * BWV 248^VI – Cantata Herr, wenn die stolzen Feinde schnauben
• BWV 248^VIa – textless cantata, model for BWV 248^VI.
• BWV 249 – Easter Oratorio, also known by its incipit Kommt, eilet und laufet
• * BWV 249a – Secular cantata Entfliehet, verschwindet, entweichet, ihr Sorgen
• * BWV 249b – Secular cantata Verjaget, zerstreuet, zerrüttet, ihr Sterne
• BWV 11 – Ascension Oratorio, previously known as Cantata Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen

  Compositions in the third and fourth chapters of the ''Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis'' (1998)