Schübler Chorales is a name commonly used for a collection of six chorale preludes by Johann Sebastian Bach (BWV 645–650). They were engraved and published in the late 1740s by Johann Georg Schübler, from whom they derive their nickname. The collection is originally entitled Sechs Choräle von verschiedener Art. The pieces are composed for a two manual organ with obligatory pedal.

Uniquely for Bach's sets of organ works, five out of six chorales in this collection are transcriptions from his cantatas. The following table lists the Schübler Chorales, their German and English names and cantata movements they are transcribed from:

The chorale BWV 646 may have been originally for keyboard. It is not transcribed from a movement of any of the known cantatas by Bach, so if it was in fact transcribed like the other chorales of the set, the original cantata is lost.

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