Yo-Yo Ma: Elgar Cello Concerto, 1st mvmt. Yo-Yo Ma plays the prelude from Bach´s Cello Suite No. 1. E.T. Soundtrack Suite (John Williams) Suite (music. Suite (music) Estienne du Tertre published suyttes de bransles in 1557, giving the first general use of the term "suite" 'suyttes' in music, although the usual form of the time was as pairs of dances.
The first recognizable suite is Peuerl's Newe Padouan, Intrada, Dantz, and Galliarda of 1611, in which the four dances of the title appear repeatedly in ten suites. The Banchetto musicale by Johann Schein (1617) contains 20 sequences of five different dances. The first four-movement suite credited to a named composer, Sandley's Suite, was published in 1663.[3][4]