The Prelude, Fugue and Allegro for lute in E-flat major was composed in 1740, during Bach's tenure as Kappelmiester at Leipzig.
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circa 1734
J.S. Bach composed more than 1100 songs if we count from BWV.
Wikipedia shows the manuscript of the first sonata (BWV 1001) is autographed from 1720. One could possibly assume that all the third partita (BWV 1006) was composed around the same time.
BWV 659a (the original version) was composed in weimar between 1711 and 1713. By the end of his life he reworked it (this version is known as BWV 659) so that must have been in the late 1740s.
Bach Werke Verzeichnis in German. (Bach Works Catalogue in English.)