NOTENBÜCHLEIN FüR ANNA MAGDALENA BACH - MENUET IN G

Created on 03/03/2006
Latest update on 21/03/2024

Artist: Johann Sebastian Bach
Author: Christian Petzold
Year: 1725

Anna Magdalena was Bach's second wife and survived him in poverty. This menuet was an anonymous piece when it entered said Notenbüch. In the 1970s it finally was identified as coming from a harpsichord suite composed by organist Christian Petzold from Dresden (1677-1733).

Covers:

1965:

Toys [as A Lover's Concerto]

1965:

Sandra Reemer [as Mijn Concert]

1966:

Supremes

1966:

Vogues

1966:

Sarah Vaughan

1966:

Cilla Black

1967:

Bob Crewe

1975:

Horst Jankowski [all as A Lover's Concerto]

1984:

Giorgio Moroder [as The Duel on soundtrack Electric Dreams]

Petzold's menuet loops permanently out of the magic mushrooms in the fairy tale forest at the Efteling theme park (Noord Brabant - The Netherlands).

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