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When one refers to the Minuet in G major ... This piece was written around 1725 and is found in the "Notebook For Anna Magdalena Bach." For a period of time, it was assumed that it was composed ...
The gilded, 1725 volume is filled with ... in a sampling of entries in Anna Magdalena’s notebook. The program includes the Minuet in G, C.P.E. Bach’s Polonaise in G minor and J.S. Bach ...
Bach to his young wife Anna Magdalena in 1725. The notebook begins in the loftiest ... entering a naïve minuet by an unknown composer. This is the first of two dozen diminutive dance pieces ...
If fame is in the name, then Anna Magdalena Bach is history ... its famous organ in 1725, the same year he presented the second notebook to Anna Magdalena. The catchy minuet was already a ...
A few years after their marriage, Bach gave her two “notebooks”—the “Notenbüchlein für Anna Magdalena Bach” of 1722 and 1725—filled ... will dance the minuet, the gigue, and the ...
Prelude 6 from the "Little Clavier Book for Wilhelm Friedemann Bach," Minuet 2 of the Suite in D Minor from the "Little Clavier Book for Anna Magdalena Bach," Sonata No. 2 in D Major for Viola and ...
Many of the program’s pieces came from Anna Magdalena’s collections, and Lewis unashamedly began with Bach’s teaching music, including the famous Minuet in G, which received the same loving ...
But his argument is seductive. Anna Magdalena was a gifted singer from a family of musicians, which is apparently how Bach came to meet her when she was a teenager. The couple married in 1721 ...