Baroque · 1721
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D
J. S. BachBWV 1050
- Key
- D
- Time
- C
- Tempo
- ♩=96
- AO focus
- AO3
Incipit
Form
Concerto grosso with concertino of flute, violin, harpsichord. Famous 65-bar harpsichord cadenza in mvt 1.
Teaching points
- Harpsichord as soloist — Bach's invention
- Cadenza — first keyboard concerto cadenza
- AO3: invention of keyboard concerto
Full score ↓Public domain
Bach-Gesellschaft + Bärenreiter NBA, public domain.