page_title: Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach
section_title: The 1725 notebook
hierarchical_section_title: Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach / History / The 1725 notebook
caption_attribution_description: Cover of the second notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach. Taken from the Bach Gesamtausgabe (BGA), vol. 44 [B.W. XLIV]: "Joh. Seb. Bach's handschrift" (Joh.Seb.Bach's manuscripts), Originally published by the Bach-Gesellschaft in Leipzig, 1895. This image is in the public domain.
context_page_description: The title Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach refers to either of two manuscript notebooks that the German Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach presented to his second wife, Anna Magdalena. Keyboard music makes up most of both notebooks, and a few pieces for voice are included.
  The Notebooks provide a glimpse into the domestic music of the 18th century and the musical tastes of the Bach family.
context_section_description: The 1725 notebook is larger than the 1722 one, and more richly decorated. Light green paper is used for the front cover, Anna Magdalena's initials and the year number "1725" are printed in gold. All pages feature gilt edging. Most of the entries in the 1725 notebook were made by Anna Magdalena herself, with others written in the hand of Johann Sebastian, some by sons Johann Christian and Carl Philipp Emanuel, and a few by family friends such as Johann Gottfried Bernhard and Johann Gottfried Heinrich. 
  Although the 1725 notebook does contain work composed by Johann Sebastian Bach, it also includes works by many other composers.  The authorship of several pieces is identified in the notebook itself, while that of others was established by researchers.  The composers of still others, including several popular songs of the time, remain unknown. 
  Here is a complete list of the pieces included, in order of appearance in the notebook:
  Keyboard partita in A minor, BWV 827. This is the third partita from Bach's set of Partitas for keyboard BWV 825–830, which was published in 1731 as the first volume of Clavier-Übung.
  Keyboard partita in E minor, BWV 830. This is the sixth partita from Bach's set of Partitas for keyboard BWV 825–830.
  Minuet in F major, BWV Anh. 113.
  Minuet in G major, BWV Anh. 114. Usually attributed to Christian Petzold.
  Minuet in G minor, BWV Anh. 115. Usually attributed to Christian Petzold.
  Rondeau in B-flat major, BWV Anh. 183. This piece is by François Couperin and is best known under the original title: Les Bergeries (6e Ordre).
  Minuet in G major, BWV Anh. 116
  Polonaise in F major, BWV Anh. 117a
  Polonaise in F major, BWV Anh. 117b
  Minuet in B-flat major, BWV Anh. 118
  Polonaise in G minor, BWV Anh. 119
  Chorale prelude "Wer nur den lieben Gott läßt walten", BWV 691
  Chorale setting "Gib dich zufrieden und sei stille" in F major, BWV 510
  Chorale setting "Gib dich zufrieden und sei stille" in G minor, BWV 511
  Chorale setting "Gib dich zufrieden und sei stille" in E minor, BWV 512
  Minuet in A minor, BWV Anh. 120
  Minuet in C minor, BWV Anh. 121
  March in D major, BWV Anh. 122. Usually attributed to Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.
  Polonaise in G minor, BWV Anh. 123. Usually attributed to Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.
  March in G major, BWV Anh. 124. Usually attributed to Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.
  Polonaise in G minor, BWV Anh. 125. Usually attributed to Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.
  Aria "So oft ich meine Tobackspfeife" in D minor, BWV 515
  Aria "So oft ich meine Tobackspfeife" in G minor, BWV 515a
  Menuet fait par Mons. Böhm, by Georg Böhm. Not included in the BWV catalogue.
  Musette in D major, BWV Anh. 126
  March in E-flat major, BWV Anh. 127
  (Polonaise) in D minor, BWV Anh. 128
  Aria "Bist du bei mir", BWV 508. This composition is probably the most well-known of the arias of the 1725 notebook. Its melody is by Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel.
  Keyboard aria in G major, BWV 988/1. Another well-known piece, this is the aria of the Goldberg Variations, BWV 988.  Christoph Wolff has suggested that this Aria was entered into the two blank pages of this book by Anna Magdalena later, in 1740.
  Solo per il cembalo in E-flat major, BWV Anh. 129. A harpsichord piece by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.
  Polonaise in G major, BWV Anh. 130. Possibly composed by Johann Adolph Hasse.
  Prelude in C major, BWV 846/1. This is the first prelude from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, with bars 16–20 omitted, most likely in order to make the piece fit in two pages.
  Keyboard suite in D minor, BWV 812. This is the first French Suite.
  Keyboard suite in C minor, BWV 813. This is an incomplete version of the second French Suite.
  Movement in F major, BWV Anh. 131. The handwriting looks like that of a child, and apparently the piece is an attempt to create a bass line for a given melody.
  Aria "Warum betrübst du dich", BWV 516
  Recitative "Ich habe genug" and aria "Schlummert ein, ihr matten Augen" (solo), BWV 82/2,3
  Chorale setting "Schaff's mit mir, Gott", BWV 514
  Minuet in D minor, BWV Anh. 132
  Aria "Willst du dein Herz mir schenken" (subtitled "Aria di Giovannini"), 
caption: Cover of the second (1725) Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach
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