The arrangement of Bach by later generations is a second creation, which is based on loyalty to the original work. This statement is wrong.

Bach is a representative musician of the Baroque period. His music is full of characteristics of Baroque art, highly decorative and gives people a dazzling feeling. To understand the overall shape of Bach's works, in a nutshell, he loved all kinds of suite creations, and he not only made outstanding achievements in keyboard music, but also made great contributions to string suites.

Suite is the oldest form of instrumental music suite. It is composed of several relatively independent movements arranged and combined under a unified artistic conception. The suite is like Western food, which is very particular about the order in which the dishes are served, but there is no set number of movements, allowing the artist to express themselves freely. As early as the 14th century, a combination of slow and fast dance music was popular in balls.

Bach’s artistic achievements in suites are extremely high. His representative works include the keyboard suites "English Suite" and "French Suite". The string suites include the extremely famous unaccompanied violin sonata and suite, and the unaccompanied cello suite. wait.

The background of the times when Bach’s works were produced:

Bach’s works cover a wide range of musical fields. Although most of his works have been lost, there are still more than 500 that have been preserved. There are nearly 300 cantatas, 48 ??fugues and preludes from the Well-Tempered Clavier, and at least 140 other preludes.

About a hundred harpsichord pieces, twenty-three minor concertos, four overtures, thirty-three sonatas, five masses, three sacred pieces, and many other pieces of music, starting from Bach’s creations Judging from time and place, 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 creations matured.

In 1702, Bach graduated from the seminary, and then took up the position of organist in the small town of Lünebau. In April of the following year, he went to Weimar to serve as court violinist, and in August he became the organist of the new teacher in Arnshta Teacher, there is a good organ in this teaching, and Bach's work is not heavy.

So he had plenty of time to play the organ. It was here that he fully mastered the playing skills of the organ and clavichord, and composed the Easter cantata "Don't Abandon My Soul on In Hell and the clavichord work "Capriccio for a Beloved Brother on His Journey."