 Over 400 works by Hammerschmidt survive, in a total of 14 separate collections.The motets represent a more conservative style, as noted by Hammerschmidt himself, and the concertos—concertato pieces with opposing groups of voices and instruments—are in a current idiom.Some of his concertos are written for large ensembles, with diverse combinations of instruments and voices (for example, the sets from "Gespräche über die Evangelia" of 1655–1656; this was long enough after the war that large ensembles were available again).