Christian Petzold (composer)

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Christian Petzold (* 1677 in Weißig near Königstein ; † June 2, 1733 in Dresden ; also: Pezold ) was a German organist and composer .

Life

Petzold was born the son of a stone crusher. From 1703 he was organist at the Sophienkirche in Dresden , from 1709 also chamber composer at the court there. He composed a cantata for the dedication of the Silbermann organ in the Sophienkirche in 1720 . Extensive concert tours took him to Paris in 1714 and Venice in 1716 .

Johann Mattheson counted Petzold among the most famous organ players of his time. He was the teacher of Carl Heinrich Graun and Johann Gotthilf Ziegler .

Works

Only a few of Petzold's works have survived: a cantata, three trio sonatas , two partitas for viola d'amore , two suites de clavecin , a suite and a toccata for harpsichord and a collection of 25 harpsichord pieces “ Recueil de 25 concerts pour le clavecin ”.

Petzold's best-known compositions are two minuets in G major and G minor for harpsichord or clavichord , which Anna Magdalena Bach took over in her 1725 “Notenbüchlein” . Since this music book contains extensive autograph writings by Johann Sebastian Bach , and since it was not possible to differentiate between the manuscripts of Anna Magdalena and Johann Sebastian until well into the 20th century, the entries of the two minuets, which without mentioning the composer as No. 4 and 5 of the music book appear, mistaken for Bach's autographs . Therefore Johann Sebastian Bach was generally regarded as their composer (BWV Anh. 114 and 115). It was not until 1979 that Hans-Joachim Schulze was able to record the pieces in a Suite de Clavecin by Petzold.

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SURNAME Petzold, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pezold, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1677
PLACE OF BIRTH Weißig at Königstein
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1733
Place of death Dresden