Minuets in G major and G minor

Anna Magdalena Bach likely received the notebook from her husband in the autumn of 1725, as a present for either her birthday (22 September) or their wedding anniversary (3 December).

[3][10][11] Bach likely intended the simple binary dances contained in Anna Magdalena's notebooks, including the Minuets entered without composer indication, as teaching material, likely rather for his younger children than for his wife.

[6] In Johann Gottfried Walther's Lexicon, published in 1732, Petzold is mentioned as a composer of "good keyboard pieces" (German: gute ...

[6][13] Some of Petzold's harpsichord music appeared in 1729 collections:[6] Heinrich Raphael Krause was a student in Leipzig from 1720, before becoming cantor in Olbernhau in 1725.

Johann Benjamin Tzschirich was a student in Grimma when he started to copy harpsichord pieces collected by Krause in an album in 1726.

Meanwhile, he had continued to add pieces to his harpsichord music manuscript, including compositions by Bach (part of BWV 914), Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, Telemann, Johann Kuhnau and others.

One of the last pieces he entered, likely around the time when moving to Bitterfeld (1735–1736), was a Suite by Petzold containing, together with eight other movements, the G major/G minor combined Minuet, otherwise only known as Nos.

[3][17][18][19] In Tzschirich's manuscript, the Minuet pair in G major and G minor is preceded by five other movements of Petzold's Suite, respectively a Prelude, an Allemande, a Courante, a Sarabande and a Bourrée.

4 and 5 of Anna Magdalena Bach's second notebook as two of "twenty easy piano pieces" (German: 20 leichte Clavierstücke) from that manuscript.

[6] Outside the context of scholarly literature, and despite being marked as doubtful in the BWV, the Minuets were still generally considered as compositions by Bach.

The melody from the 1965 pop song "A Lover's Concerto", written by American songwriters Sandy Linzer and Denny Randell, was based on the Minuet in G major.

[32][33][35][36] In the 1984 film Electric Dreams, the piece is the basis for a duet, or a friendly musical duel, between cellist Madeline and Edgar, the computer.

114 and 115 were recorded by renowned performers (on harpsichord unless otherwise indicated), including:[38] In 1988, Dadelsen published a facsimile of Anna Magdalena's second notebook.

[44] Richard Jones published the short pieces, edited with piano fingering, of Anna Magdalena's 1725 notebook in 1997.