Geraldine Walther’s recordings include Paul Hindemith's Trauermusik and Der Schwanendreher with the San Francisco Symphony (both on London/Decca), Paul Chihara's Golden Slumbers with the San Francisco Chamber Singers (Albany), and Lou Harrison's Threnody (New Albion).
The possibility of a reconstruction arose when the nineteenth-century scholar Wilhelm Rust discovered that Bach in part built the Trauermusik with movements from the Trauer-Ode for the Electress of Saxony Laß, Fürstin, laß noch einen Strahl, BWV 198, and from the St Matthew Passion.
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An aria from the Trauermusik was used in the 1968 film The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach.
The Masonic Funeral Music (Maurerische Trauermusik), K. 477/479a, no later than November 1785.