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Minuet In G Minor Notebooks For Anna Magdalena Bach BWV Anhang 115
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Browse piano sheets by Christian Petzold on Zen Virtual Piano. The Minuet in G major that Anna Magdalena Bach copied into her second keyboard notebook was composed by Christian Petzold, though it was long attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach. Anna Magdalena copied two minuets, BWV Anhang 114 and 115, from an extensive suite by Petzold, whose ties with the Bach family were both musical and professional. A minuet that was credited to the great Bach for so long makes its real composer easy to overlook. Petzold was born in Weißig, near Königstein, in simple circumstances, and he spent his childhood there. A birth near Königstein and a death in Dresden bracket his life with two places. He had evidently developed into a respectable organ player early, since in 1696, aged 19, he applied for the post of organist at the Sophienkirche, the Protestant court church in Dresden. A year later he was accepted as electoral Saxon organist, with a “waiting money” of 50 thalers, and in 1709 he was promoted to chamber composer at the Saxon court and organist proper at the Sophienkirche, with a starting salary of 400 thalers. A young applicant at 19 who later became chamber composer at the court traces a steady rise from simple beginnings in Weißig. He tested and appraised numerous new organs and other instruments, among them those of his friend Gottfried Silbermann, and with the approval of the elector Friedrich August I he made study and concert trips with court musicians to Prague and Vienna in 1704, to Paris in 1714 and to Venice in 1716. Petzold also helped with the sale of Bach’s Partita BWV 826. A court organist who traveled with the court’s musicians to cities such as Prague and Vienna shows a composer collecting his ideas from the wider musical world. Bach took over several of his works, including the famous minuet from the Suite de Clavecin in G major. Works that Bach chose to take over can be read as a mark of how useful Petzold’s music was to a fellow composer. Petzold died as chamber composer and organist at the Sophienkirche in Dresden on 2 July 1733.
Browse piano sheets by Christian Petzold on Zen Virtual Piano.
The Minuet in G major that Anna Magdalena Bach copied into her second keyboard notebook was composed by Christian Petzold, though it was long attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach. Anna Magdalena copied two minuets, BWV Anhang 114 and 115, from an extensive suite by Petzold, whose ties with the Bach family were both musical and professional. A minuet that was credited to the great Bach for so long makes its real composer easy to overlook.
Petzold was born in Weißig, near Königstein, in simple circumstances, and he spent his childhood there. A birth near Königstein and a death in Dresden bracket his life with two places. He had evidently developed into a respectable organ player early, since in 1696, aged 19, he applied for the post of organist at the Sophienkirche, the Protestant court church in Dresden. A year later he was accepted as electoral Saxon organist, with a “waiting money” of 50 thalers, and in 1709 he was promoted to chamber composer at the Saxon court and organist proper at the Sophienkirche, with a starting salary of 400 thalers. A young applicant at 19 who later became chamber composer at the court traces a steady rise from simple beginnings in Weißig.
He tested and appraised numerous new organs and other instruments, among them those of his friend Gottfried Silbermann, and with the approval of the elector Friedrich August I he made study and concert trips with court musicians to Prague and Vienna in 1704, to Paris in 1714 and to Venice in 1716. Petzold also helped with the sale of Bach’s Partita BWV 826. A court organist who traveled with the court’s musicians to cities such as Prague and Vienna shows a composer collecting his ideas from the wider musical world.
Bach took over several of his works, including the famous minuet from the Suite de Clavecin in G major. Works that Bach chose to take over can be read as a mark of how useful Petzold’s music was to a fellow composer. Petzold died as chamber composer and organist at the Sophienkirche in Dresden on 2 July 1733.
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Christian Petzold. Anna Magdalena copied two minuets, BWV Anhang 114 and 115, from an extensive suite of his, and the G-major minuet was long attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach.
In Dresden: he applied at 19 for the organist’s post at the Sophienkirche, was accepted as electoral Saxon organist a year later, and in 1709 became chamber composer at the Saxon court.
Yes. His ties with the family were both musical and professional, and he helped with the sale of Bach’s Partita BWV 826.