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
Flute Sonata in E-flat major, BWV 1031 Flute Sonata in E-flat major, BWV 1031 The Sonata in E major for flute or recorder and harpsichord, probably by J. S. Bach (BWV 1031), is a sonata in 3 movements: The Bach scholar Robert Marshall has argued that the sonata was composed by J. S. Bach, since it was attributed to him by two independent sources, Bach's son Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach in the manuscript copy of the work in his handwriting, and Christian Friedrich Penzel, Bach's last pupil. The musicologist Jeanne Swack has suggested alternatively that BWV 1031 was "modelled" on a previous work for flute in E-flat