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Johann Sebastian Bach's Suites for Solo Cello are known to be among the best known and most virtuosic works ever written for cello, and it is generally believed that it was Pau Casals who gave them fame. They were written between 1717 and 1723 presumably for one of the cellists who at the time worked at the court of Köthen, but there are also reasons to suppose that the last suites were conceived independently, perhaps for instruments other than the cello.
They were probably composed in the period 1717–1723, when Bach was kapellmeister in Köthen; the uniformity and coherence of these works suggests that they may have been conceived together or consequentially, presumably for one of Köthen's cellists, such as Christian Bernhard Linigke or Christian Ferdinand Abel, much better known as a gambler. It is impossible to establish an exact and precise chronology of the suites, there is no certain data regarding the order in which they were conceived and / or whether they were written before or after the Sonatas and Partis for solo violin. In any case, scholars - based on a comparative analysis of the styles of these different works - believe that the cello suites were written first, dating them before 1720, the year indicated on the cover of Johann Sebastian Bach's autographed copy of the Sonatas and matches for solo violin.
These works are particularly significant in the history of stringed instruments: while until the time of Bach it was customary for the cello to play accompaniment parts and the more melodic parts in the same register were entrusted to instruments of the viola da gamba family, in these suites, as in parts of Brandenburg concerts, the cello is entrusted with a part alone. Bach can be considered an innovator who favors the supplanting of the viola da gamba, but some also suppose that it is likely that Bach would have done this because he found it difficult to give virtuosic parts to the viola da gamba. [12] In fact, Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Köthen, with whom he worked at that time, was a gambler and played Bach's works, but he was not a particular virtuoso, so it could have been difficult to give the viola da gamba complicated parts, so Bach, not having the ability to write complex parts for the viola da gamba, he would have written more ambitious works for the cello.

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