

The title page is inscribed Clavier-Büchlein vor Anna Magdalena Bachin ANNO 1722 in Anna Magdalena's hand (using the feminine version of her last name). The back and the corners are decorated with brown leather greenish paper is used for the cover. It is not known what happened to the other pages.

This notebook contains 25 unbound sheets (including two blank pages), which is estimated to be approximately a third of the original size. Note the titles of the three Pfeiffer books written by Bach in the lower right corner. Title page of the first (1722) Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach. The 1722 notebook: French Suites and miscellany The primary difference between the two collections is that the 1722 notebook contains works only by Johann Sebastian Bach (including most of the French Suites), while the 1725 notebook is a compilation of music by both Bach and other composers of the era. The title "Anna Magdalena Notebook" is commonly used to refer to the latter. The two notebooks are known by their title page dates of 17. The Notebooks provide a glimpse into the domestic music of the 18th century and the musical tastes of the Bach family. Keyboard music ( minuets, rondeaux, polonaises, chorales, sonatas, preludes, musettes, marches, gavottes) makes up most of both notebooks, and a few pieces for voice ( songs, and arias) are included. The title Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach ( German: Notenbüchlein für 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.

You may hear selections from Bach's Anna Magdalena Notebook as performed by Gustav Leonhardt This page of the 1722 notebook contains the gavotte from French Suite No.
