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The suites were later given the name 'French' (first recorded usage by Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg in 1762). Likewise, the English Suites received a later appellation. The name was popularised by Bach's biographer Johann Nikolaus Forkel, who wrote in his 1802 biography of Bach, "One usually calls them French Suites because they are written in the French manner."
English Suites, BWV 806–811; French Suites, BWV 812–817; Partitas for keyboard, BWV 825–830; Overture in the French style, BWV 831; Other: Miscellaneous suites, BWV 818–824; Miscellaneous suites and suite movements, BWV 832–845
The Overture in the French style, BWV 831, original title Ouvertüre nach Französischer Art, also known as the French Overture and published as the second half of the Clavier-Übung II in 1735 (paired with the Italian Concerto), is a suite in B minor for a two-manual harpsichord written by Johann Sebastian Bach.
The next two are complete suites, French Suites Nos. 4 and 5, BWV 815–816. The minuets of suites 2 and 3 are separated from the rest of their respective suites and were most probably added at a later date by Anna Magdalena Bach (they are almost certainly in her hand), some time before 1725. Fantasia pro organo, unfinished, BWV 573.
Gavotte from J.S. Bach's French Suite No. 5. A suite, in Western classical music, is an ordered set of instrumental or orchestral/concert band pieces. It originated in the late 14th century as a pairing of dance tunes; and grew in scope so that by the early 17th century it comprised up to five dances, sometimes with a prelude.
The tonalities of the six Partitas (B ♭ major, C minor, A minor, D major, G major, E minor) may seem to be random, but in fact they form a sequence of intervals going up and then down by increasing amounts: a second up (B ♭ to C), a third down (C to A), a fourth up (A to D), a fifth down (D to G), and finally a sixth up (G to E). [5]
Orchestral Suite No. 1, Première suite d'orchestre – 1867; Orchestral Suite No. 2, Scènes hongroises – 1870; Orchestral Suite No. 3, Scènes dramatiques – 1875; Orchestral Suite No. 4, Scènes pittoresques – 1874; Orchestral Suite No. 5, Scènes napolitaines – 1876; Orchestral Suite No. 6, Scènes de féerie – 1881
Suite in E minor, BWV 996, is a musical composition written by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) between 1708 and 1717. It is probable that this suite was intended for Lautenwerck (lute-harpsichord). [1] Because the lautenwerk is an uncommon instrument, it is in modern times often performed on the guitar or the lute.