Listing Bach's works according to their time of composition cannot be done comprehensively: for many works the period in which they were composed is a very wide range. For Bach's larger vocal works (cantatas, Passions,...) research has led to some more or less generally accepted chronologies, covering most of these works: a catalogue in this sense is Philippe (and Gérard) Zwang's list giving a chronological number to the cantatas BWV 1–215 and 248–249.Johann Sebastian Bach: Correspondance Catalogues Zwang — Schmeider at This list was published in 1982 as Guide pratique des cantates de Bach in Paris, . A revised edition was published in 2005 ().
