Christian Petzold (composer) Christian Petzold (composer) Christian Petzold (1677 – before 2 June 1733) was a German composer and organist. He was active primarily in Dresden, and achieved a high reputation during his lifetime, but his surviving works are few. It was established in the 1970s that the famous Minuet in G major, previously attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach, was in fact the work of Petzold. The sprightly melody was used in the 1966 pop music hit "A Lover's Concerto" by the American group The Toys. He was born in Weißig near Königstein in 1677; the exact date of birth is unknown. From
Works by J. G. A. Pocock Works by J. G. A. Pocock A scholar of the history of British political discourse, J. G. A. Pocock, the Harry C. Black Chair of History Emeritus at Johns Hopkins University, has enjoyed over 60 years of publication. Now in his tenth decade, he recently concluded "Barbarism and Religion", a six-volume study of Edward Gibbon, author of "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire". The first two volumes of "B&R" were awarded the American Philosophical Society's "Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History" for the year 1999. In total, Pocock has published more than 260 articles, essays,