Minuet In G Major, BWV Anh.114 by Johann Sebastian Bach
The familiar Minuet in G Major carries a catalog lesson inside its graceful phrases. It is widely encountered under Johann Sebastian Bach's name as BWV Anh. 114, but current reference sources identify Christian Petzold as the composer. The piece survived in Anna Magdalena Bach's 1725 notebook, which helps explain the old attribution without proving that Bach wrote it. Bach Digital and the Netherlands Bach Society connect the minuet to Petzold's keyboard music and to the paired G-minor minuet, BWV Anh. 115. For a player, the correction does not make the minuet less useful; it makes the page more honest. A modern piano edition may add dynamics, fingering or repeats, so those choices should remain attached to the edition rather than to Petzold or the old Bach label.
About Minuet In G Major, BWV Anh.114
The familiar Minuet in G Major carries a catalog lesson inside its graceful phrases. It is widely encountered under Johann Sebastian Bach's name as BWV Anh. 114, but current reference sources identify Christian Petzold as the composer.
The piece survived in Anna Magdalena Bach's 1725 notebook, which helps explain the old attribution without proving that Bach wrote it. Bach Digital and the Netherlands Bach Society connect the minuet to Petzold's keyboard music and to the paired G-minor minuet, BWV Anh. 115.
For a player, the correction does not make the minuet less useful; it makes the page more honest. A modern piano edition may add dynamics, fingering or repeats, so those choices should remain attached to the edition rather than to Petzold or the old Bach label.