page_title: List of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach printed during his lifetime
section_title: Clavier-Übung I
hierarchical_section_title: List of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach printed during his lifetime / Printed music / Clavier-Übung I
caption_attribution_description: Title page of Partita 1 from the first part of J.S. Bach's Clavier-Übung, printed by Balthasar Schmid in 1726
context_page_description: Compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach printed during his lifetime include works for keyboard instruments, such as his Clavier-Übung volumes for harpsichord and for organ, and to a lesser extent ensemble music, such as the trio sonata of The Musical Offering, and vocal music, such as a cantata published early in his career. Other works, such as several canons, were printed without an indication by which instruments they were to be performed.
  No more than a few works by Johann Sebastian Bach were printed during his lifetime. Extended works for choir and instrumentalists were not printed very often in his day. Bach selected mostly keyboard compositions for publication, which conformed to such contemporary practices, and was instrumental in establishing him as a keyboard composer. His works not only circulated in print: also manuscripts were copied and transmitted. Whether or not a work was selected for print was independent of the quality of the music.
context_section_description: Bach's Six Partitas, BWV 825–830, for harpsichord, were published in instalments from 1726 to 1730:
  Autumn 1726: Partita No. 1 in B-flat major, BWV 825.
  Easter 1727: Partita No. 2 in C minor, BWV 826.
  Michaelmas 1727: Partita No. 3 in A minor, BWV 827.
  1728: Partita No. 4 in D major, BWV 828.
  1730: Partita No. 5 in G major, BWV 829.
  1730: Partita No. 6 in E minor, BWV 830.
  In 1731 these partitas were collectively published as Clavier-Übung ("Keyboard Exercise").
  Publication 
  According to an announcement published in May 1730, it was originally planned to publish seven suites.
  Handexemplar 
  In 1774 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, son of Johann Sebastian, sold a print of Clavier-Übung I from his father's personal library to Johann Nikolaus Forkel. In 2008 Andrew Talle identified SH J. S. Bach 56 of the Austrian National Library as the Handexemplar that changed hands in 1774.  Previously, Bach scholars such as Walter Emery (1952) and Richard D. P. Jones (1978, 1988, 1997) had assumed that Hirsch III. 37 of the British Library was the only copy of Clavier-Übung I with final corrections as intended by Bach.
caption: Title page of the 1726 edition of BWV 825, the first of six partitas that would be grouped into Clavier-Übung I in 1731
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