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Like the other harpsichord concertos, BWV 1052 has been widely believed to be a transcription of a lost concerto for another instrument. Beginning with Wilhelm Rust and Philipp Spitta , many scholars suggested that the original melody instrument was the violin, because of the many violinistic figurations in the solo part—string-crossing, open ...
Two other concertos include solo harpsichord parts: the concerto BWV 1044, which has solo parts for harpsichord, violin and flute, and Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major, with the same scoring. In addition, there is a nine-bar concerto fragment for harpsichord (BWV 1059) which adds an oboe to the strings and continuo.
A harpsichord concerto is a piece of music for an orchestra with the harpsichord in a solo role (though for another sense, see below). Sometimes these works are played on the modern piano (see piano concerto ).
The 5th Brandenburg Concerto, BWV 1050, always was a concerto for flute, violin and harpsichord, also in its earlier version BWV 1050a. Earlier versions for unaccompanied keyboard instruments of all three movements of the Triple Concerto, BWV 1044, are extant. Other harpsichord concertos, and related cantata movements if available, have been ...
Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, op. 1 (1893) Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor, op. 23 (1905–07) Zygmunt Stojowski. Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp minor, op. 3 (1890) Piano Concerto No. 2 in A-flat, op. 32 (1909–10) Igor Stravinsky. Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments (1923-4) Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra; Movements for Piano ...
Concerto for Harpsichord (2006) Lukas Foss. Piano Concerto No. 1 (1939–43) Piano Concerto No. 2 (1951) Jean Françaix. Concertino in G major (1932) Concerto (1936) César Franck. Variations brillantes sur la ronde favorite de Gustave III (1834–5) Piano Concerto No. 2 in B minor, Op. 11 (juvenilia, 1835) Symphonic Variations, FWV 46 (1885)
Apart from his orchestral keyboard concertos and his solo organ concertos, Johann Sebastian Bach composed keyboard concertos for unaccompanied harpsichord: . Most of his Weimar concerto transcriptions, over twenty arrangements of Italian and Italianate orchestral concertos which he produced around 1713–1714 when he was employed in Weimar, were written for solo harpsichord (BWV 592a and 972 ...
The Harpsichord Concerto in E major, BWV 1053, is a concerto for harpsichord and string orchestra by Johann Sebastian Bach. It is the second of Bach's keyboard concerto composed in 1738, scored for keyboard and baroque string orchestra. The movements were reworkings of parts of two of Bach's church cantatas composed in 1726: the solo obbligato ...