List of concertos for harpsichord solo by J. S. Bach
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.
- Two decades later, some ten years after he had become Thomaskantor in Leipzig, he wrote a concerto for two harpsichords, BWV 1061a, which was later orchestrated as BWV 1061.
- The Italian Concerto, BWV 971, was published in 1735 as part of his Clavier-Übung II.
Weimar concerto transcriptions
BWV | Key | Model |
592a | G major | Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar: ; BWV 592 |
972 | D major | Vivaldi, Op. 3 No. 9: Violin Concerto in D major, RV 230; BWV 972a |
972a | D major | Vivaldi, Op. 3 No. 9: Violin Concerto in D major, RV 230 |
973 | G major | Vivaldi, RV 299: Violin Concerto in G major |
974 | D minor | Marcello, A.: Oboe Concerto in D minor |
975 | G minor | Vivaldi, RV 316 |
976 | C major | Vivaldi, Op. 3 No. 12: Violin Concerto in E major, RV 265 |
977 | C major | |
978 | F major | Vivaldi, Op. 3 No. 3: Violin Concerto in G major, RV 310 |
979 | B minor | Vivaldi, RV 813: Violin Concerto in D minor |
980 | G major | Vivaldi, RV 383: Violin Concerto in B-flat major, |
981 | C minor | Marcello, B.: Concerto Op. 1 No. 2 |
982 | Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar: Concerto Op. 1 No. 1 | |
983 | G minor | |
984 | C major | Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar: and possibly BWV 595 |
985 | G minor | Telemann: |
986 | G major | |
987 | D minor | Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar: Concerto Op. 1 No. 4 |
Concerto in G major, BWV 592a
After by Prince Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar, and organ version BWV 592.Movements:
- Grave
- Presto
Concerto in D major, BWV 972
Movements:
- Larghetto
- Allegro
Concerto in G major, BWV 973
Movements:
- Largo
- Allegro
Concerto in D minor, BWV 974
Movements:
- Adagio
- Presto
Concerto in G minor, BWV 975
Movements:
- Largo
- Giga Presto
Concerto in C major, BWV 976
Movements:
- Largo
- Allegro
Concerto in C major, BWV 977
Movements:
- Adagio
- Giga
Concerto in F major, BWV 978
Movements:
- Allegro
- Largo
- Allegro
Concerto in B minor, BWV 979
Movements:
- Allegro – Adagio
- Allegro
- Andante
- Adagio
- Allegro
Concerto in G major, BWV 980
Movements:
- Largo
- Allegro
Concerto in C minor, BWV 981
Movements:
- Adagio
- Vivace
- Prestissimo
Concerto in B-flat major, BWV 982
Movements:
- Adagio
- Allegro
- Allegro
Concerto in G minor, BWV 983
Movements:
- Adagio
- Allegro
Concerto in C major, BWV 984
Movements:
- Adagio e affettoso
- Allegro assai
Concerto in G minor, BWV 985
Movements:
- Adagio
- Allegro
Concerto in G major, BWV 986
Movements:
- Adagio
- Allegro
Concerto in D minor, BWV 987
Movements:
- Allegro
- Adagio
- Vivace
Original compositions
''Italian Concerto'' included in ''Clavier-Übung II''
Bach's Italian Concerto, BWV 971, was published in 1735, as first of two compositions included in Clavier-Übung II. An early version of the concerto's first movement survives in an 18th-century copy.Early version of Concerto for two harpsichords, BWV 1061
BWV 1061a, a concerto for two harpsichords without accompaniment, is Bach's original version of the Concerto for two harpsichords and strings, BWV 1061.Doubtful works
Several concertos for unaccompanied harpsichord are listed as doubtful in Anhang II of the 1998 edition of the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis:- BWV 909 – Concerto and Fugue in C minor
- BWV Anh. 151 – Concerto in C major
- BWV Anh. 152 – Concerto in G major
Discography
BWV 592a and 972–987
- . Brilliant Classics 99372/3 and /4.
''Italian Concerto''
BWV 909
- . Ricercar RIC 038014
- Christiane Wuyts. Brilliant Classics 99362/9.
BWV 1061a
- Guillermo Brachetta and . Resonus RES 10189.
Manuscripts
- 25448 MSM at Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles : Fascicles and at Bach Digital website
- D-DS Mus. ms. 66 at
- D-LEb Peters Ms. 8 at /Bach Archive: Fascicles , and at Bach Digital website
- D-LEm Poel. mus. Ms. 29 at
- at Berlin State Library
- at Berlin State Library
- at Berlin State Library : Fascicles , , , , , , , , and at Bach Digital website
- Mus.ms. Bach St 139, Fascicle 1 at Berlin State Library