A Literature Review of J. S. Bach’s Cello Suites

The works of J. S. Bach are autographs or copies and some of them are lost. In this sense it is much more difficult for performers to know what the composer exactly wants. There are four manuscripts of J.S. Bach Cello Suites that has survived. The only source that has been reached to the present day is the autograph of the 5th suite’s lute transcription. Due to the missing autographs of these suites, when and for how long they were written is based on estimates. Limited and mysterious knowledge of these works cause uncertainty about the interpretation, but on the other hand, it offered a substantial sense of interpretation. In this sense, the aim of this study is to examine the literature about the role of the J. S. Bach cello suites in the Baroque period and in the present