Christian Petzold
Composer
1677 – 1733
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Who was Christian Petzold?
Christian Petzold 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.
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- Born
- 1677
Königstein, Saxony - Also known as
- Petzold, Christian
- Christian Pezold
- Pezold, Christian
- Died
- Jul 2, 1733
Dresden
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on July 23, 2013
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