Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach is the central figure of the late Baroque keyboard tradition and, by common agreement, the greatest contrapuntist in Western music. His keyboard output spans every form available to him — preludes and fugues, suites, partitas, inventions, variations, toccatas, and pedagogical exercises that shaped the instrument for two centuries.

The Well-Tempered Clavier alone secured his place at the centre of the keyboard repertoire, and the Goldberg Variations, the Inventions, and the French and English Suites remain core study material for serious pianists in every conservatory in the world.

The 216 public-domain piano works listed below are sortable, downloadable as PDF score editions, and free to study, perform, record, and re-engrave. Each piece links to its individual page with full catalog data, performance notes, and historical context. Browse more works from the Baroque era, or use the difficulty filters below to narrow by technical level.