As light breaks into overlapping paths across the room, the solitary cello becomes a visual counterpart to Bach’s design: a single line generating harmony, motion, and the presence of many voices. i Work Information Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) Title: Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007 Year of composition: probably c. 1720; in any case during Bach’s Köthen period, 1717–1723 Premiere: unknown Genre: Baroque dance suite for an unaccompanied instrument Structure: six principal sections — Prélude, Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, Menuet I–II, Gigue Duration: approx. 17–22 minutes, depending on repeats and interpretive approach Instrumentation: solo cello, without basso continuo Source status: Bach’s autograph is lost; the work survives in four eighteenth-century manuscript copies and the first printed edition of 1824 Reference edition: the recent critical tradition of the Neue Bach-Ausgabe – Revi...