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BWV 806-811;Johan Sebastian Bach Suites; Harpsichord; Bob Van Asperen
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These six suites for keyboard are thought to be the earliest set that Bach composed. Originally, their date of composition was thought to have been between 1718 and 1720, but more recent research suggests that the composition was likely earlier, around 1715, while the composer was living in Weimar.[citation needed].
Bach's English Suites display less affinity with Baroque English keyboard style than the French Suites do to French Baroque keyboard style; the name "English" is thought to date back to a claim made by the nineteenth-century Bach biographer Johann Nikolaus Forkel that these works might have been composed for an English nobleman. No evidence has emerged to substantiate this claim.[citation needed] It has also been suggested that the name is a tribute to Charles Dieupart, whose fame was greatest in England, and on whose Six Suittes de clavessin Bach's English Suites were in part based.[1]
Surface characteristics of the English Suites strongly resemble those of Bach's French Suites and Partitas, particularly in the sequential dance-movement structural organization and treatment of ornamentation. These suites also resemble the Baroque French keyboard suite typified by the generation of composers including Jean-Henri d'Anglebert, and the dance-suite tradition of French lutenists that preceded it.
In the English Suites especially, Bach's affinity with French lute music is demonstrated by his inclusion of a prelude for each suite, departing from an earlier tradition of German derivations of French suite (those of Johann Jakob Froberger and Georg Boehm are examples), which saw a relatively strict progression of the dance movements (Allemande, Courante, Sarabande and Gigue) and which did not typically feature a Prelude. Unlike the unmeasured preludes of French lute or keyboard style, however, Bach's preludes in the English Suites are composed in strict meter.
1st Suite in A major, BWV 806
List:
Prelude
Allemande
Courante I
Courante II
Sarabande
Bourrée I
Bourrée II
Gigue
2nd Suite in A minor, BWV 807
List:
Prelude
Allemande
Courante
Sarabande
Bourrée I
Bourrée II
Gigue
3rd Suite in G minor, BWV 808
List:
Prelude
Allemande
Courante
Sarabande
Gavotte I
Gavotte II
Gigue
4th Suite in F major, BWV 809
List:
Prelude
Allemande
Courante
Sarabande
Menuet I
Menuet II
Gigue
5th Suite in E minor, BWV 810
List:
Prelude
Allemande
Courante
Sarabande
Passepied I
Passepied II
Gigue
6th Suite in D minor, BWV 811
List:
Prelude
Allemande
Courante
Sarabande
Gavotte I
Gavotte II
Gigue
