Free Petzold sheet music
1 Petzold score on Artform's shelf, ordered easiest to read first. Every score here is public domain, free to read, print and keep.
Open the sheet music libraryChristian Petzold (1677-1733)
Dresden organist whose name almost nobody knew until 1970, when the Minuet in G that every piano student learns as their first Bach was found to be his. It sits in the notebook Bach kept for his wife Anna Magdalena, which is a household anthology of pieces the family liked rather than a collection of his own, and the attribution had simply been assumed for two centuries. Petzold was well regarded in his own city and almost none of his music survives, so the one piece that does is a famous one wearing somebody else's name.
Start with these
The easiest Petzold on the shelf, in order. Nothing here is graded and nobody is ranked: the shelf simply puts the pieces that ask less of your hands before the ones that ask more.
How the reader works
Each score opens as engraved notation you can read from the stand, and it plays: hear the piece first, then slow it down and loop the bar that is not working. There is nothing to install and no account to make. When you want paper, print it.
Every file is MusicXML, so MuseScore, Sibelius, Finale and Dorico open them too.
Where to go next
If you are learning Petzold rather than only reading, the scale pages cover fingering in every key, the chord pages spell out every chord, and the symbol dictionary explains any mark on the page you do not recognise.