Notes: Since isolated chorales that have come down to us by way of anthologies are virtually impossible to date, the below table includes only those chorales whose sources are known. Therefore, BWVs 253–438 are excluded. (Exception: The BWVs 250–252 wedding chorales are included since we know them to be from 1734 or earlier.) The date format is year.month.day throughout this chart.

The Breitkopf column refers to the collection of chorales edited by C.P.E. Bach for the publisher Breitkopf. This edition served as the basis for the Riemenschneider edition, though numbers do not correspond exactly. The Dietel chorale collection was copied from 1734 to 1735 by Johann Ludwig Dietel (1713–1773) who sang under Bach’s leadership in Leipzig from 1727 to 1735. This collection precedes the Breitkopf collection which was posthumously assembled in the 1760s.

Chorale numbers italicized in the Breitkopf and Riemenschneider columns denote chorales that have been transposed relative to their appearances in the works from which they come (i.e. relative to their appearances in the Schmieder catalogue). Information in the Notes column marked with a ^w was derived from Christoph Wolff’s Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician (2000, Norton).