A Lover's Concerto 1995 film "Mr. Holland's Opus", in which the title character, attributing the Petzold minuet to Bach as was typical for the time in which that portion of the film was set, compares the two works in order to help his students gain an appreciation of Western classical music. The song is also featured, as a duet between a cello and a computer, in the 1984 film, "Electric Dreams". A Lover's Concerto "A Lover's Concerto" is a pop song written by American songwriters Sandy Linzer and Denny Randell, and recorded in 1965 by The Toys. "A Lover's Concerto" sold more than
Minuet but the form itself can be traced back to Haydn. The minuet and trio eventually became the standard third movement in the four-movement classical symphony, Johann Stamitz being the first to employ it thus with regularity. An example of the true form of the minuet is to be found in "Don Giovanni". A famous example of a more recent instrumental work in minuet form is Ignacy Jan Paderewski's Minuet in G. Minuet A minuet (; also spelled "menuet") is a social dance of French origin for two people, usually in time. The word was adapted from Italian "minuetto" and French