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Admiral of Fugues
I understand this delightful little piece (we all learned it) was not written by Bach at all, but by Christian Pezold (from Dresden).
Johan Sebastian was a GREAT plagarist, but he made no secret of the fact. However, in the grand scheme of things (that is his BWV list) 95% are original. He wrote some very fine transcriptions of Vivaldi Concerti and others of the era who are now totally unknown.
Gotta remember, with two wives, dozens of children, the poor bugger barely had time for his favourite past time: hanging out in the local cafe sipping coffee.
In fact, Bach's adoration for Coffee is exalted rather wonderfully in the Coffee Cantata (where the petulant and demanding girl of the story has terse words with her father about not getting married if she can't have her coffee).
In the McGill Conservatory syllabus, it's listed under J. S. Bach, but they specify (attr.). I suspect because they wished to list all the pieces from the Anna Magdalena book all under the same heading, thus all grouped together.Rojo - in the Australian Syllabus for the Music Examinations Board, it's now (rightfully) accredited to poor old Her Petzold!