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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."
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.
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
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.
Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach. The English Suites, BWV 806–811, are a set of six suites written by the German composer Johann Sebastian Bach for harpsichord (or clavichord) and generally thought to be the earliest of his 19 suites for keyboard (discounting several less well-known earlier suites), the others being the six French Suites (BWV 812–817), the six Partitas (BWV 825-830) and ...
French Suites (Bach) L. Lute Suite in C minor, BWV 997; Lute Suite in E minor, BWV 996; O. Orchestral suites (Bach) Overture in the French style, BWV 831; P.
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Petite suite, orchestrations made by Bizet in 1872 of five movements from his Jeux d’enfants; Scènes bohémiennes, an orchestral suite made by Bizet in 1874 from his opera La jolie fille de Perth; Suite No. 1 from the above-listed incidental music for Daudet’s L’Arlésienne, compiled in 1872 by Bizet himself