Minuet In G Minor Notebooks For Anna Magdalena Bach BWV Anhang 115 by Christian Petzold
The Minuet in G Minor is a short keyboard dance that survives in the second Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach, the 1725 notebook compiled for Bach's second wife. It is item number 5 in that manuscript and is paired with the better-known Minuet in G Major, BWV Anh. 114. For much of its history the piece was published under Johann Sebastian Bach's name and catalogued as BWV Anh. 115. Scholarship from the 1970s onward, associated with Hans-Joachim Schulze, reassigned it to Christian Petzold, a German organist, Dresden court musician and composer; the catalog number survives as an appendix label rather than a statement of authorship. The 1725 date belongs to the notebook, not to the year the music was composed, which is not exactly known; the inscription date of the entry itself is not independently established. The original medium is the harpsichord, so a modern piano score is an edition of a harpsichord miniature, and any added dynamics or fingering are editorial choices.
About Minuet In G Minor Notebooks For Anna Magdalena Bach BWV Anhang 115
The Minuet in G Minor is a short keyboard dance that survives in the second Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach, the 1725 notebook compiled for Bach's second wife. It is item number 5 in that manuscript and is paired with the better-known Minuet in G Major, BWV Anh. 114.
For much of its history the piece was published under Johann Sebastian Bach's name and catalogued as BWV Anh. 115. Scholarship from the 1970s onward, associated with Hans-Joachim Schulze, reassigned it to Christian Petzold, a German organist, Dresden court musician and composer; the catalog number survives as an appendix label rather than a statement of authorship.
The 1725 date belongs to the notebook, not to the year the music was composed, which is not exactly known; the inscription date of the entry itself is not independently established. The original medium is the harpsichord, so a modern piano score is an edition of a harpsichord miniature, and any added dynamics or fingering are editorial choices.