The cello suites by eric siblin6/24/2023 To their amazement, they found Bach’s lost “Cello Suites” tucked in a dark corner. His search to learn all he can about the music leads Siblin to Barcelona, where Pablo Casals, just thirteen and in possession of his first cello, roamed the back streets with his father, in search of sheet music. Part biography, part music history, and part mystery, The Cello Suites weaves together three dramatic narratives: Bach’s composition of the suites and the manuscript’s subsequent disappearance in the eighteenth century Pablo Casals’s historic discovery of the music in Spain in the late nineteenth century, and his popularization of the suites several decades later and Siblin’s own infatuation with the suites at the dawn of the twenty-first century. So began an epic quest that would unravel three centuries of intrigue, politics, and passion. One evening, not long after ending a stint as the pop music critic at the Montreal Gazette, Eric Siblin attended a recital of Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Cello Suites.” There, something unlikely happened: he fell deeply in love with the music.
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