Bach for Guitar – Free Sheet Music PDFs

This page finds you free and premium sheet music by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) for classical guitar.

Free and Premium Editions From This Site:

• Bach: Air ‘On the G String’ for Easy Guitar, Gr.4, Notes & TAB
• Bach: Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring, Gr.4, TAB or Free Notation PDF
• Bach: Prelude in D minor, BWV 999, Gr.7, TAB or Free Notation PDF
• Bach: Prelude from Cello Suite BWV 1007, Gr.7, TAB or Free Notation PDF

Recommended Pro Editions (Amazon)

• Bach Lute Suites Edited by Koonce – Great edition and fingering, reference facsimiles at end, good text info too.
• Bach Lute Suites Edited by Zigante – Also great, maybe better than Koonce in some ways.
• 6 Sonatas And Partitas For Violin Bwv1001-1006 Arranged For Guitar by Tadashi Sasaki
• 3 Sonatas for Guitar Solo: from Sonata for Violin, BWV 1001, 1003 and 1005 by Manuel Barrueco
• Bach Cello Suites Arranged for Guitar by Stanley Yates – Some very good, some less.
• Classical Guitar of Bach with TAB – You TAB junkie you!

Keep in mind that:

• BWV 995 – Suite in G minor is a transcription of Cello Suite No. 5, BWV 1011
• BWV 1000 – Fugue in G minor is a transcription from Violin Sonata No. 1, BWV 1001
• BWV 1006a is a transcription from Partita No. 3 in E major BWV 1006 for solo violin

Free Lute Suites by Jean-François Delcamp – Copyright/Notes: Edited & Fingered and available for free from his site. Links to www.delcamp.net.

• Suite BWV 995
• Suite BWV 996
• Partita BWV 997
• Prélude, fugue et allegro BWV 998
• Prélude BWV 999
• Fugue BWV 1000
• Suite BWV 1006a

Free Lute Suites – Arr. Eythor Thorlaksson (Links to classicalguitarschool.net): Copyright/Notes: Edited & Fingered and available for free from his site.

• Prelude, Fuge and Allegro (BWV 998)
• Suite no. 1 (BWV 996)
• Suite no. 2 (BWV 997)
• Suite no. 3 (BWV 995)
• Suite no. 4 (BWV 1006a)

Free Hans Bruger: J.S. Bach: Compositionen für die Laute (1921) – Copyright/Notes: Public Domain. Beware of mistakes and old-school keys! I would not recommend this edition but could still be useful.

• BWV 995 – Suite in G minor
• BWV 996 – Suite in E minor
• BWV 997 – Suite in C minor
• BWV 998 – Prelude, Fugue and Allegro
• BWV 999 – Prelude in C minor (A min)
• BWV 1000 – Fugue in G minor
• BWV 1006a – Partita in E Major