List of motets by Johann Sebastian Bach

It is uncertain how many motets Johann Sebastian Bach composed, because some have been lost, and there are some doubtful attributions among the surviving ones associated with him.

There is a case for regarding the six motets catalogued BWV 225–230 as being authenticated, although there is some doubt about one of them, Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden.

A seventh motet, Ich lasse dich nicht, BWV Anh.

There is some uncertainty as to the extent that motets would have been called for in normal church services—there is evidence that the form was considered archaic.

Bach's biographer Johann Nikolaus Forkel suggested that the choral writing would have been useful for training Bach's young singers, and Christoph Wolff has argued that this could apply in particular to Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied.

The director on this occasion was the Thomaskantor Johann Friedrich Doles, a pupil of Bach.

that the person responsible was Johann Gottfried Schicht, who was active in the city as a choral and orchestral conductor.

The editor was Franz Wüllner, who did not accept Bach's authorship of Ich lasse dich nicht.