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Johann Sebastian Bach's Six Suites For Solo Cello

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The music of the Baroque period is more popular today than it was when it was composed between the 17th and 18th centuries. There is now access to tens of thousands of pieces of music written in the Baroque style that continues to please listeners today. (Green, 2017)

Baroque music was extremely innovative and was compose at a time wherein composers were free to experiment with instruments, polyphonic textures as well as numerous forms. The word “Baroque” comes from the Italian word barocco which means “bizarre.” (Green, 2017)

Johann Sebastian Bach was one of the most famous composers of the Baroque period. He was born into an extremely musical family, and Bach himself had kids who carried on his musical legacy. He was a virtuoso organist and harpsichordist as well as a prolific composer. Bach brought Baroque music to a new level, composing over a thousand pieces in numerous forms. Bach composed the Six Suites for Solo Cello around 1720 when the suite was already a well-known genre, but they were the first of their kind. (Green, 2017)

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I chose to write about the Six Suites for Solo Cello as I believe that they hold a great significance. The cello as an …show more content…

Even though some of the compositions were written slightly earlier and later revised, it was in Kothen that Bach’s sonatas for violin and clavier, sonatas for viola da gamba, and works for unaccompanied violin and cello were most likely put into their present form. The Brandenburg Concertos were completed by 721, and in the sixth concerto, Bach kept in mind the Prince’s technical limitations on the viola da gamba. Bach chose to play the viola as he preferred to be “in the middle” of the harmony. He also composed numerous cantatas for the Prince’s birthday as well as other occasions – most of these cantatas survived only in later versions and have been adapted since. (Emery & Marshall,

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