Baroque, Free Sheet Music, Intermediate Cellists
First published on May 16, 2024 by Seb
Last updated on May 16, 2024 by Seb
Jessica Korotkin joked that J.S. Bach didn’t write Bach Cello Suites 7 through 12. She did. Her 6 unaccompanied cello suites were inspired by Bach, and composed through a rigorous methodology, documented in her thesis: Building on Bach: 6 New Suites for Solo Cello, and summarized in this Early Music America article. Our project “Bach Wrote What?!” applauds her multi-year effort dedicated to this work.
Here is Jessica performing the Prelude from her first Bach-inspired cello suite in E minor, with a Baroque cello setup.
Watch her talk about her approach to this effort in 2020, three years before the completion of this Herculean set of 6 suites, each complete with its own course of prelude, allemande, courante, sarabande, minutes, gigue, bourrees, and/or gavottes.
Performance of the rest of his Suite No. 1 can be found on her YouTube channel.
Complete score to her 6 suites are found at the end of her dissertation, previously mentioned: Building on Bach: 6 New Suites for Solo Cello. Here is the sheet music for the Prelude from Suite No. 1, for illustration purposes only. See her paper for complete score.