Napris (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

Was that really a Stradivarius, or ... just the movie? e_e;

munkybrain (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

I suggest, if you're suspicious that bach didn't write them, and perhaps his wife or byron did, then look for writings on the matter. I'm sure people have put forward good arguments.

JanaCello (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

as i don't want to talk about Bach,etudes,accompaniment.....i just want to say that Piatigorsky is a great cellist, i think this is a point that you will all agree on! :)

xXLeafXNinjaXx (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

i read somewhere that before the bach cello suites were performed as concert pieces, that people thought they were just some random etudes

2934703 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

O.K. So don't take lessons with me. I would advise you, however, if you studied with Heifetz you would play it his way or not at all. I still say, "fine!!! Play anything you want the way you want to play it." As an afterthought, if Bach felt the unaccompanied Shites for violin and cello were performance pieces, why didn't he write an accompsaniment? It is plain dumb for two grown men to argue about what to call thee pieces.

owenhsmith (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

what you said doesn't make sense.

xXLeafXNinjaXx (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

i thought that before the bach cello suites became the actual suites that people thought they were etudes that were for practice and not actual performance pieces :|but im a violinist so i dont know for shure but thats what i heard

celloman79 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

Etudes? Why would an ORGANIST write a bunch of etudes for CELLO? In case you are unfamiliar with cello literature, Popper, Duport, ETC. were all great CELLISTS writing etudes for their own instruments. You don't write etudes for someone else's instrument.

Cellorubik (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

Bach was the original composer of these suites, however the original manuscripts are yet to be discovered. The suites that we play today are from a secondary source. Once the primary source representation of these wonderful suites is found, a composer can be confirmed. In the mean time however, Bach lived from around 1685 to 1750 and was a classical composer, Gregory "Lord" Byron was a poet who lived from 1788 to 1824. Now, explain how a poet can even measure up to Bach's work.

AbsoluteZ3R0 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

Although I agree with you that these suites should be played like great pieces of music (which they are), they are in fact etudes (and so are his violin partitas and sonatas). Of course Bach, being one of the greatest composers of all time, couldn't help but make great music out of everything he ever wrote and therefore, we have the greatest etudes ever written.