Partita for keyboard No. 6, BWV 830

6 in E minor, BWV 830, is a suite of seven movements written for the harpsichord by Johann Sebastian Bach.

The allemande and sarabande contain some of the most audacious and dramatic melodic embellishment ever written, and the work opens and closes with two particularly ambitious contrapuntal movements."

Peter Williams, however, considers that some movements from Clavier-Übung I that were composed earlier than others, such as the Gigue from BWV 830, have a "grinding quality that is totally absent from the elegant and novel No.

It is a pure lamento and perhaps the most intensely expressive piece in all of Bach's works for harpsichord.

"[6] American composer George Rochberg's harpsichord fantasia Nach Bach contains direct musical quotations from this partita.

Autograph manuscript (1725) of Allegro for solo harpsichord from first version of Bach's sixth sonata for obbligato harpsichord and violin, BWV 1019a, later published as the Corrente in BWV 830