Baerenreiter Verlag

Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Editor: Werner Breig
Format: Book, Urtext Edition
Version: Study Score

• All concertos for one harpsichord and orchestra
• Urtext of the New Bach Edition
• Comprehensive preface, including facsimiles

In early 1729 Bach became director of the so-called "Schottischen Collegium musicum", a music organization of students and local citizens. The remarkable results of this undertaking are the concertos for harpsichord. Today it is almost certain that practically all of these concertos were transcribed from concertos for melody instruments (mostly violin or oboe). This study score contains the five concertos for harpsichord and strings, BWV 1052-1056, the concerto for harpsichord, two recorders and strings BWV 1057, as well as the concerto BWV 1058 also for harpsichord and strings based on the violin concerto in A minor. In addition, with BWV 1052a, this volume offers another version of the lost violin concert in D minor arranged by C. P. E. Bach.

Contents:

• Preface
• Editorial Note
• Facsimiles
• Six Concertos for Harpsichord:
  • Concerto I for Harpsichord and Strings in D minor BWV 1052
    • Appendix to BWV 1052
  • Concerto II for Harpsichord and Strings in E major BWV 1053
    • Appendix to BWV 1053
  • Concerto III for Harpsichord and Strings in D major BWV 1054
  • Concerto IV for Harpsichord and Strings in A major BWV 1055
    • Appendix I to BWV 1055
    • Appendix II to BWV 1055
  • Concerto V for Harpsichord and Strings in F minor BWV 1056
    • Appendix to BWV 1056
  • Concerto VI for Harpsichord, two Recorders and Strings in F major BWV 1057
• Two Concertos for Harpsichord:
  • Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings in G minor BWV 1058
  • Concerto for Harpsichord, Oboe and Strings in D minor BWV 1059 - Fragment
• Appendix:
  • Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings in D minor BWV 1052a - Arranger: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach