Despite the inclusion of the suite in the BWV catalogue the suite`s composer is not known. The British musicologist Nicholas Kenyon writes that the suite is `certainly not by J. S. Bach` and that it is `likely to be by an unknown composer or possibly W. F. Bach`. The American musicologist David Schulenberg who published a detailed study of the suite in 2010 also considers that W. F. Bach is `the most likely candidate` among the suite`s possible composers citing Wilhelm Friedemann`s close relationship with Penzel the copyist and stylistic similarities between the suite and Wilhelm Friedemann`s other compositions.