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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
In his Weimar period, Johann Sebastian Bach transcribed Italian and Italianate concertos. Most, if not all, of the concerto transcriptions for unaccompanied harpsichord were realised from July 1713 to July 1714. Most of these transcriptions were based on concertos by Antonio Vivaldi. Other models for the transcriptions included concertos by Alessandro Marcello, Benedetto Marcello, Georg Philipp Telemann and Prince Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar. Concerto in G major, BWV 592a After by Prince Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar, and organ version BWV 592. Movements: • [no tempo indication] • Grave • Presto Concerto in D major, BWV 972 After Violin Concerto in D major Op. 3 No. 9 (RV 230) by Antonio Vivaldi. There is an earlier version of this arrangement, BWV 972a. Movements: • [no tempo indication] • Largo- Larghetto • Allegro Concerto in G major, BWV 973 After Violin Concerto in G major, RV 299, by Antonio Vivaldi (later version published as Op. 7 No. 8). Movements: • [no tempo indication] • Largo • Allegro Concerto in D minor, BWV 974 After Oboe Concerto in D minor by Alessandro Marcello. Movements: • [no tempo indication] • Adagio • Presto Concerto in G minor, BWV 975 After Violin Concerto in G minor, RV 316, by Antonio Vivaldi (variant RV 316a, published as Op. 4 No. 6). Movements: • [no tempo indication] • Largo • Giga Presto Concerto in C major, BWV 976 After Violin Concerto in E major Op. 3 No. 12 (RV 265) by Antonio Vivaldi. Movements: • [no tempo indication] • Largo • Allegro Concerto in C major, BWV 977 After an unidentified model. Movements: • [no tempo indication] • Adagio • Giga Concerto in F major, BWV 978 After Violin Concerto in G major Op. 3 No. 3 (RV 310) by Antonio Vivaldi. Movements: • Allegro • Largo • Allegro Concerto in B minor, BWV 979 After Violin Concerto in D minor, RV 813, by Antonio Vivaldi (formerly RV Anh. 10 attributed to Torelli). Movements: • Allegro – Adagio • Allegro • Andante • Adagio • Allegro Concerto in G major, BWV 980 After Violin Concerto in B-flat major, RV 383 by Antonio Vivaldi (variant RV 383a published as Op. 4 No. 1). Movements: • [no tempo indication] • Largo • Allegro Concerto in C minor, BWV 981 After Violin Concerto in C minor Op. 1 No. 2 by Benedetto Marcello. Movements: • Adagio • Vivace • [no tempo indication] • Prestissimo Concerto in B-flat major, BWV 982 After Violin Concerto in B-flat major Op. 1 No. 1 by Prince Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar. Movements: • [no tempo indication] • Adagio • Allegro • Allegro Concerto in G minor, BWV 983 After an unidentified model. Movements: • [no tempo indication] • Adagio • Allegro Concerto in C major, BWV 984 After the Violin Concerto in C major by Prince Johann Ernst of Saxe–Weimar (like BWV 595). Movements: • [no tempo indication] • Adagio e affettoso • Allegro assai Concerto in G minor, BWV 985 After the , by Georg Philipp Telemann. Movements: • [no tempo indication] • Adagio • Allegro Concerto in G major, BWV 986 After an unidentified model. Movements: • [no tempo indication] • Adagio • Allegro Concerto in D minor, BWV 987 After Concerto Op. 1 No. 4 by Prince Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar. Movements: • [no tempo indication] • Allegro • Adagio • Vivace ==Original compositions==
Original compositions
Bach composed unaccompanied keyboard concertos for one and two harpsichords. 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==
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==
Discography
BWV 592a and 972–987 • (1999). Brilliant Classics 99372/3 and /4. Italian Concerto BWV 909 • (1986). Ricercar RIC 038014 • Christiane Wuyts (1988). Brilliant Classics 99362/9. BWV 1061a • Guillermo Brachetta and (2016). Resonus RES 10189. ==Further reading==
Manuscripts
• 25448 MSM at Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles (): Fascicles 3 (BWV 972a) and 4 (BWV 981) at Bach Digital • D-DS Mus. ms. 66 at (BWV 974; ; D-DS Mus. ms. 66 at Bach Digital) • D-LEb Peters Ms. 8 at /Bach Archive: Fascicles 14 (BWV 971), 28 (BWV 984) and 29 (BWV 981) at Bach Digital • D-LEm Poel. mus. Ms. 29 at (BWV 592a, 973 and 983–4; D-LEm Poel. mus. Ms. 29 at Bach Digital) • Mus.ms. Bach P 280 at Berlin State Library (BWV 592 and 973–982; ; D-B Mus. ms. Bach P 280 at Bach Digital) • Mus.ms. Bach P 801 (28) at Berlin State Library ("Concerto di Marcello", BWV 981; ; D-B Mus. ms. Bach P 801, Fascicle 28 at Bach Digital) • Mus.ms. Bach P 804 at Berlin State Library (): Fascicles 4 (BWV 974), 15 (BWV 976), 28 (BWV 985), 34 (BWV 987), 35 (BWV 983), 46 (BWV 986), 52 (BWV 984), 54 (BWV 973), 55 (BWV 972) and 56 (BWV 977) at Bach Digital • Mus.ms. Bach St 139, Fascicle 1 at Berlin State Library (autograph parts of BWV 1061a; D-B Mus. ms. Bach St 139, Faszikel 1 at Bach Digital) ==References==
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