Along with the six solo partitas, it was an important forerunner of Johann Sebastian Bach's celebrated Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin. These were started during Bach's Weimar years and finished some 24 years after the earliest known print of Westhoff's partitas; the musical characteristics seem to show that Bach's work was at least conceptually indebted to Westhoff's.
The relationship between Westhoff's six solo partitas and Johann Sebastian Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin is significant in understanding the development of Bach's work.