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ELCBK said
Pretty sharp!
Like not seeing the forest for the trees!
...now, who did Bach steal it from?
He neither composed it nor claimed credit for it, it turns out. It was attributed to Bach for centuries because it was one of a large number of short keyboard pieces found in the Anna Magdalena Bach notebook, but turns out to have been composed by his contemporary Christian Petzold. An original manuscript by Petzold was discovered in the 1970s.

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BTW, misattribution used to be quite common, and was mostly done by publishers who would attribute an obscure piece to a famous composer in order to try to sell more copies.
Another notable example is Brahms's "Variations on a Theme by Haydn." The theme was an obscure piece titled "Chorale St. Antoni" that had been published as Haydn's, but it turns out to have been spuriously attributed to Haydn and was probably (but not proven to be) composed by Ignaz Pleyel. Today, the Brahms piece is often referred to as the "St. Anthony Variations" instead.
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