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
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