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    The six Cello Suites, composed by Johann Sebastian Bach between 1717-1723, are solo compositions for unaccompanied cello that are among the most frequently performed works for that instrument. Each suite consists of six movements - a prelude followed by dances like the allemande, courante, sarabande, and various minuets or other dances ending with a gigue. Though technically demanding, the suites were little known until the early 20th century when Pablo Casals revived and recorded them, bringing the profound works to wider audiences.

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    The six Cello Suites, composed by Johann Sebastian Bach between 1717-1723, are solo compositions for unaccompanied cello that are among the most frequently performed works for that instrument. Each suite consists of six movements - a prelude followed by dances like the allemande, courante, sarabande, and various minuets or other dances ending with a gigue. Though technically demanding, the suites were little known until the early 20th century when Pablo Casals revived and recorded them, bringing the profound works to wider audiences.

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    The six Cello Suites, composed by Johann Sebastian Bach between 1717-1723, are solo compositions for unaccompanied cello that are among the most frequently performed works for that instrument. Each suite consists of six movements - a prelude followed by dances like the allemande, courante, sarabande, and various minuets or other dances ending with a gigue. Though technically demanding, the suites were little known until the early 20th century when Pablo Casals revived and recorded them, bringing the profound works to wider audiences.

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    The six Cello Suites, composed by Johann Sebastian Bach between 1717-1723, are solo compositions for unaccompanied cello that are among the most frequently performed works for that instrument. Each suite consists of six movements - a prelude followed by dances like the allemande, courante, sarabande, and various minuets or other dances ending with a gigue. Though technically demanding, the suites were little known until the early 20th century when Pablo Casals revived and recorded them, bringing the profound works to wider audiences.

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    The six Cello Suites, BWV 1007-1012, are suites for unaccompanied cello by Johann Sebastian Bach.

    They
    are some of the most frequently performed and recognizable solo compositions ever written for cello.
    Bach most likely composed them during the period 1717–23, when he served as Kapellmeister in
    Köthen. The title given on the cover of the Anna Magdalena Bach manuscript was Suites à Violoncello
    Solo senza Basso (Suites for cello solo without bass).

    Cello Suites
    BWV 1007 to 1012
    by J. S. Bach
    Frontespizio Cello Suite.png
    Title page of Anna Magdalena Bach's manuscript: Suites á Violoncello Solo senza Basso
    Composed
    between 1717 and 1723
    Instrumental
    Cello solo
    "Cello Suites" redirects here. For Benjamin Britten's three suites, see Cello suites (Britten).
    These suites for unaccompanied cello are remarkable in that they achieve the effect of implied three- to
    four-voice contrapuntal and polyphonic music in a single musical line.[1] As usual in a Baroque musical
    suite, after the prelude which begins each suite, all the other movements are based around baroque
    dance types;[2] the cello suites are structured in six movements each: prelude, allemande, courante,
    sarabande, two minuets or two bourrées or two gavottes, and a final gigue.[3] The Bach cello suites are
    considered to be among the most profound of all classical music works.[4][5][6] Wilfrid Mellers
    described them in 1980 as "Monophonic music wherein a man has created a dance of God."[7][2]

    Due to the works' technical demands, étude-like nature, and difficulty in interpretation because of the
    non-annotated nature of the surviving copies, the cello suites were little known and rarely publicly
    performed until they were revived and recorded by Pablo Casals in the early 20th century. They have
    since been performed and recorded by many renowned cellists and have been transcribed for numerous
    other instruments; they are considered some of Bach's greatest musical achievements.[6]

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