Minuet In G Minor Notebooks For Anna Magdalena Bach BWV Anhang 115 Music Sheet
Explore the Minuet In G Minor Notebooks For Anna Magdalena Bach BWV Anhang 115 virtual piano sheet and Roblox piano sheet, compare available arrangements, and play online with QWERTY notes. 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.
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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.
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Who composed the Minuet in G Minor, BWV Anh. 115?
Christian Petzold is the accepted composer; the work was long attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach and is still catalogued as BWV Anh. 115.
Why was the piece thought to be by Bach?
It was copied into Anna Magdalena Bach's 1725 notebook, and that Bach connection led to the old attribution.
What does the 1725 date mean?
It is the date of the notebook, not the composition date, which remains unknown; the inscription date of the entry itself is not independently established.
Is the minuet an original piano piece?
No. It is a harpsichord keyboard miniature; modern piano scores are later editions.