Minuet in G major BWV Anh. 114 · piano sheet music & MIDI file
The Minuet in G major as a free piano MIDI: hear the preview, download the file and the sheet music PDF, and play it tonight.
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For two and a half centuries everyone credited Bach: the piece sits in his wife Anna Magdalena's music notebook. Scholars settled it in the 1970s, the author is Christian Petzold, organist in Dresden. It changed nothing. This minuet remains the doorway into Baroque music, and its MIDI the first download of countless piano beginners.
Its strength is clarity. A melody climbing cheerfully up the G major scale, a bass that walks in counterpoint, two repeated halves and out in 41 seconds. It concentrates everything a first piece should teach: phrasing, balance between the hands, and a few optional ornaments once you feel playful.
What you'll be working on
- The ascending scale figures, cleanly articulated
- A walking left hand that never crushes the tune
- Making the repeats differ (dynamics, small variants)
- Minuet elegance: light, danced, never hurried
Playing Minuet in G major BWV Anh. 114 on piano with Pianovera
An ideal first run with Pianovera's Wait mode: the piece advances at your pace, note by note, and with only two voices the falling display stays extremely readable. A perfect stepping stone before Bach's C major prelude.
Open Minuet in G major BWV Anh. 114 in Pianovera: notes fall toward the keyboard, each hand gets its color, and Wait mode is there if you're starting out.
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Two files are waiting for you: the Minuet in G major BWV Anh. 114 piano MIDI file (2 KB, opens in Pianovera or any MIDI player) and the Minuet in G major BWV Anh. 114 piano sheet music PDF (176 KB, printable). Both come from the same engraving: what you read on the score is exactly what you hear in the preview.
The work itself is in the public domain, and this MIDI engraving was placed in the public domain by its typesetter on the Mutopia Project. Use it freely, videos included.
About this piece
Is Minuet in G major BWV Anh. 114 hard to play on piano?
We rate it beginner: 204 notes over 0:41, spanning G2 to B5. The first thing to work on: the ascending scale figures, cleanly articulated.
Where can I get the sheet music for Minuet in G major BWV Anh. 114?
Right on this page: the "View the sheet music" button opens the PDF (176 KB), engraved by the Mutopia Project from the same source as the MIDI file, Public domain license. View it, print it, keep it.
Is the Minuet in G major BWV Anh. 114 MIDI file really free?
Yes. Christian Petzold died more than 70 years ago, so the work (1725) is public domain. This MIDI engraving is public domain too: download it and use it freely, videos included.