The pair of menuets BWV Anh. 114/115 may have been
brought back from Dresden by Johann Sebastian Bach when
he visited this city in September 1725 meeting their
composer Christian Petzold. Anna Magdalena Bach copied
them without composer indication into her 1725 music
book at the very beginning after the two partitas
inserted by her husband.
Both menuets are movements of a very nice and easy
suite in G major by Christian Petzold:
1. Prélude:
https://www.free-scores.com/sheetmusi...(+)
The pair of menuets BWV Anh. 114/115 may have been
brought back from Dresden by Johann Sebastian Bach when
he visited this city in September 1725 meeting their
composer Christian Petzold. Anna Magdalena Bach copied
them without composer indication into her 1725 music
book at the very beginning after the two partitas
inserted by her husband.
Both menuets are movements of a very nice and easy
suite in G major by Christian Petzold:
1. Prélude:
https://www.free-scores.com/sheetmusic?p=a1ChRo9kKL
2. Allemand
https://www.free-scores.com/sheetmusic?p=acp9bOXiLo
3. Courante
https://www.free-scores.com/sheetmusic?p=aquw8g7R5g
4. Sarabande
https://www.free-scores.com/sheetmusic?p=alhJfax4gi
5. Bourrée
https://www.free-scores.com/sheetmusic?p=a1QuVqDKNv
6. Alternating Menuets BWV Anh. 114,115
7. Gigue
https://www.free-scores.com/sheetmusic?p=ad5t5OODkl
8. Passepied
https://www.free-scores.com/sheetmusic?p=aEgv8SH9Vv
In 1979 Hans Joachim Schulze investigated an old
manuscript and identified therein the pair of menuets
as movement 6 of this suite in G major composed by
Christian Petzold.
ABRSM Grade 2 (everyone)
(Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music)
LCM Grade 1 (Menuet 1, London College of Music, Grades
1-8)
RCM Grade 3 (Menuet 1, Royal Conservatory of Music,
Grades 1-10)
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