title: List of concertos for harpsichord solo by J. S. Bach
text: # 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 (BWV 592a and 972–987).
  * 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.
  
  Weimar concerto transcriptions (harpsichord) :
  
  | BWV | Key | Model |
  | - | - | - |
  | 592a | G major | Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar: Violin Concerto in G major [scores]; 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 (published as Op. 7 No. 8) |
  | 974 | D minor | Marcello, A.: Oboe Concerto in D minor |
  | 975 | G minor | Vivaldi, RV 316 (variant RV 316a, Violin Concerto in G minor, published as Op. 4 No. 6) |
  | 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 (formerly RV Anh. 10 attributed to Torelli) |
  | 980 | G major | Vivaldi, RV 383: Violin Concerto in B-flat major, (variant RV 383a published as Op. 4 No. 1) |
  | 981 | C minor | Marcello, B.: Concerto Op. 1 No. 2 |
  | 982 | B♭ major | Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar: Concerto Op. 1 No. 1 |
  | 983 | G minor | |
  | 984 | C major | Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar: Violin Concerto in C major [scores] and possibly BWV 595 |
  | 985 | G minor | Telemann: Violin Concerto in G minor, TWV 51:g1 [scores] |
  | 986 | G major | |
  | 987 | D minor | Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar: Concerto Op. 1 No. 4 |
  
  ### Concerto in G major, BWV 592a
  
  After Violin Concerto in G major [scores] 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 Violin Concerto in G minor, TWV 51:g1 [scores], 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
  
  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
  
  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
  
  * Pieter Dirksen [nl] (1999). Brilliant Classics 99372/3 and /4.
  
  ### BWV 909
  
  * Guy Penson [fr] (1986). Ricercar RIC 038014
  * Christiane Wuyts (1988). Brilliant Classics 99362/9.
  
  ### BWV 1061a
  
  * Guillermo Brachetta and Menno van Delft [nl] (2016). Resonus RES 10189.
  