The circumstances or the exact date of its creation is relatively unknown but it there was a widespread belief that the piece was crafted for the wedding of Johann Christoph Bach.
Due to its uniqueness, "Canon and Gigue in D" rose to prominence and became a subject of several renditions since 1968 when an arrangement and subsequent recording of it was performed by Jean-François Paillard’s chamber orchestra
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