7 years and under

You can submit your application between 20 to 30 August 2024
The results will be announced on 30 September 2024

Entry fee: 50 Euro    /      1st Prize: Diploma

Participants must record 2 works in total: one work from List A and one from List B.

List A

An own choice of work or movement(s) from a larger work (e.g. Suite) by J. S. Bach.
(No time limit).

OR

One of the works listed below:

• J. S. Bach: Musette in D major from the Anna Magdalena Bach Notebook, BWV Anh. 126 – La Folia © Score
• C. Petzold: Menuet G major from the Anna Magdalena Bach Notebook, BWV Anh. 114 – La Folia © Score
• G. P. Telemann: Vite in D major, TWV 33:16/3 – La Folia © Score
• J. W. Hässler: 2 Preludes: No. 11 in F major and No. 5 in D minor, (360 Preludes Op. 47) – La Folia © Score

 Works can be played with, or without repeats.

List B

Own Choice: work of any period.
No Minimum length.
Maximum length 2 minutes

8 years and under

You can submit your application between 20 to 30 August 2024
The results will be announced on 30 September 2024

Entry fee: 50 Euro    /      1st Prize: Diploma

Participants must record 2 works in total: one work from List A and one from List B.

List A

An own choice of work or movement(s) from a larger work (e.g. Suite) by J. S. Bach.
(No time limit).

OR

One of the works listed below:

• J. S. Bach: Aria from the Anna Magdalena Bach Notebook, BWV Anh. 515 – La Folia © Score
• C. P. E. Bach: March from the Anna Magdalena Bach Notebook, BWV Anh.122 – La Folia © Score
• J. C. F. Fischer: Prelude from the Suite No. 1 in C major – La Folia © Score
• J. W. Hässler: 2 Preludes: No.6 in D Major and No.11 in B minor (360 Preludes Op.47) – La Folia © Score

Works can be played with, or without repeats.

List B

Own Choice: work of any period.
No Minimum length.
Maximum length 3 minutes

10 years and under

You can submit your application between 20 to 30 September 2024
 The results will be announced on 30 October 2024

Entry fee: 70 Euro   /   1st Prize: Diploma

Participants must record 2 works in total: one work from List A and one from List B.

List A

An own choice of work or movement(s) from a larger work (e.g. Suite) by J. S. Bach.
(No time limit).

OR

One of the works listed below:

Choose one work from the list below.

• J. S. Bach: Little Prelude in F major BWV 928 – La Folia © Score
• J. S. Bach: Little Prelude in C major BWV 933 – La Folia © Score
• J. S. Bach – A. Siloti: Bourrée I and Bourrée II from the Cello Suite No. 3 – La Folia © Score
• J. C. Bach: Toccata No. 68 (sometimes 69. It is called Toccata!) from the Methode ou Recueil – La Folia © Score

Works can be played with, or without repeats.

List B

Own Choice: work of any period.
No Minimum length.
Maximum length 4 minutes

11 years and under

You can submit your application between 20 to 30 September 2024
 The results will be announced on 30 October 2024

Entry fee: 90 Euro   /   1st Prize: Diploma

Participants must record 2 works in total: one work from List A and one from List B.

List A

An own choice of work or movement(s) from a larger work (e.g. Suite) by J. S. Bach.
(No time limit).

OR

One of the works listed below:

• J. S. Bach: Little Prelude in C minor BWV 999 – La Folia © Score
• J. S. Bach: Little Prelude in C major BWV 924 – La Folia © Score
• J. S. Bach: Menuet 1 from the French Suite No. 2 in C minor BWV 813 – La Folia © Score
• D. Scarlatti: Sonata in D minor K. 32 – La Folia © Score

Works can be played with, or without repeats.

List B

Own Choice: work of any period.
No Minimum length.
Maximum length 5 minutes

13 years and under

 You can submit your application between 20 to 30 October 2024
The results will be announced on 30 November 2024

Entry fee: 100 Euro   /   1st Prize: Diploma

Participants must record 2 works in total: one work from List A and one from List B.

List A

An own choice of work or movement(s) from a larger work (e.g. Suite) by J. S. Bach.
(No time limit).

OR

One of the works listed below:

• J. S. Bach: Invention No. 1 in C major BWV 772 – La Folia © Score
• J. S. Bach: Gavotte 1 from the English Suite No. 3 in G minor BWV 808 –  Score
• J. Pachelbel: Chaconne  D major (Theme and Variations) – La Folia © Score
• D. Scarlatti: Sonata in C major K. 95 – La Folia © Score

Works can be played with, or without repeats.

List B

Own Choice: work of any period.
No Minimum length.
Maximum length 6 minutes

14 years and under

You can submit your application between 20 to 30 October 2024
The results will be announced on 30 November 2024

Entry fee: 100 Euro   /   1st Prize: Diploma

Participants must record 2 works in total: one work from List A and one from List B.

List A

An own choice of work or movement(s) from a larger work (e.g. Suite) by J. S. Bach.
(No time limit).

OR

One of the works listed below:

• J. S. Bach: Any 1 Prelude & Fugue from the Well-tempered Clavier I or II – Score 1 or Score 2
• J. S. Bach: Any two dances from one Suite
• J. S. Bach: Italian Concerto 2nd movement BWV 971 – Score
• J. S. Bach: Fantasia in A minor BWV 922 (without Fugue section. Bars 1 to 1st beat of bar 34 only) – La Folia © Score

Works can be played with, or without repeats.

List B

Own Choice: work of any period.
No Minimum length.
Maximum length 7 minutes

16 years and under

You can submit your application between 20 to 30 December 2024
The results will be announced on 30 January 2025

Entry fee: 100 Euro   /   1st Prize: Diploma

Participants must record 2 works in total: one work from List A and one from List B.

List A

An own choice of work or movement(s) from a larger work (e.g. Suite) by J. S. Bach. (No time limit).

OR

One of the works listed below:

• J. S. Bach: Any 1 Prelude & Fugue from the Well-tempered Clavier I or II – Score 1 and Score 2
• J. S. Bach: Any three dances from one Suite
• J. S. Bach: 1st or 3rd movement from the Italian Concerto, BWV 971 – Score
• J. S. Bach: Sinfonia from the Partita No. 2 in C minor BWV 826 – Score

Works can be played with, or without repeats.

List B

Own Choice: work of any period.
No Minimum length.
Maximum length 8 minutes

Open age/ Amateurs

You can submit your application between 20 to 30 January 2025
The results will be announced on 28 February 2025

Entry fee: 150 Euro   /   1st Prize: €350 + Diploma

Participants are being evaluated on a high standard of performance.
Thus, the jury is not obliged to award all the prizes.

Free Program consisting of the works of J. S. Bach and composers of his circle.

• A Minimum of one original work of J. S. Bach must be included.
• Transcriptions of works by Bach (e.g. by Brahms, Liszt, Saint-Saëns, Busoni or Rachmaninov, and others) are permitted.
• Composers of his circle include: his immediate predecessors, contemporaries, sons and students.
  – His predecessors include: D. Buxtehude, J. Kuhnau, J. Pachelbel, and others;
  – His contemporaries include G. F. Handel, D. Scarlatti, C. Graupner, J. P. Rameau, F. Couperin, and others;
  – His sons and students include W. F. Bach, C. P. E. Bach, and J. C. Bach, J. P. Kirnberger, J. L. Krebs, and others.

• Works can be played with, or without repeats.

Minimum length 20 minutes. Maximum length 25 minutes.