Bach was a representative musician in the Baroque period. His music is full of the characteristics of baroque art, which is very decorative and gives people a dazzling feeling. Understand the overall form of Bach's works, in short, he likes all kinds of suite creation very much, which not only contributes to keyboard music, but also contributes a lot to string suites.
Suite is the oldest form of instrumental music suite, which is composed of several relatively independent movements arranged and combined in a unified artistic conception. Suites, like western food, pay great attention to the order of serving, but there is no fixed number of movements, which are freely expressed and played by artists. As early as the14th century, a slow and fast dance combination prevailed in dance.
Bach's artistic achievements in suites are extremely high, such as the keyboard suite "English Suite" and "French Suite", the string suite has very famous unaccompanied violin sonatas and suites, cello suites and so on.
The background of Bach's works;
Bach's works cover a wide range of musical fields. Although most of his works have been lost, more than 500 works have been preserved, including nearly 300 cantatas, 48 fugues and preludes in The Balanced Piano Collection, and at least 140 other preludes.
There are about 100 harpsichords, 23 concertino, 4 overtures, 33 sonatas, 5 mass and 3 hymns. Judging from the time and place of Bach's creation, it can be divided into three stages: the first stage is the Weimar era, which can be said to be the stage when Bach's creation tends to mature.
1702, Bach graduated from God School, and then worked as an organist in the small town of Lombok. In April of the following year, he went to Weimar as a court violinist, and in August, he worked as an organist in the new teaching in Arnshta. In this teaching, his organ is very good, and Bach's works are not heavy.
Therefore, he had enough time to play the organ, and it was here that he mastered the playing skills of the organ and the clavichord in an all-round way, and created the Jesus Easter chorus "Don't abandon my soul in hell" and the clavichord work "A capriccio for my dear brother".