ABSTRACT
Next to the Well-Tempered Clavier and the inventions, Bach’s best-known keyboard works are the suites that he composed, or at least collected and revised, during the 1720s and early 1730s. Th e twenty-one works in question include the six English Suites, the six French Suites, and the seven large suites (six partitas and an ouverture) published in Parts 1 and 2 of the Clavierübung. In addition there are two suites (BWV 818 and 819) that can be considered in conjunction with the French Suites, as well as three compositions for lute that resemble suites and were probably played on the lute-harpsichord and other keyboard instruments.
