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
Twenty Variations in G major (Haydn) a similar to a French overture. Variation 17 is similar to a Solfeggio. Variation 18 is described as a pompous procession through the suspensions and trills, and Variation 19’s thick, crashing chords are evocative of the "surprise" in Haydn's Symphony No. 94. The last variation demands an instrument tuned with a short octave, making a wider spread of chord possible. Twenty Variations in G major (Haydn) Twenty Variations in G major, Hob. XVII/2, was written in the 1760s by Joseph Haydn. In 1788/1789, Artaria published the "Arietta con 12 Variazioni in A major" (Twelve Variations in A major), which is