Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 on the autographs in the Berlin State Library, was published by C. F. Peters in 1852. The next year the concerto was performed in the Gewandhaus in Leipzig. The Bach Gesellschaft (BG) published the "Brandenburg Concertos" in 1871, edited by Wilhelm Rust. Max Reger's orchestral arrangement of the concerto was published by Breitkopf & Härtel in 1915. Reger also arranged the concerto for piano duet. Arnold Schering's score edition of the concerto was based on the BG version and was published by Eulenburg in the late 1920s. Around 1925 Eusebius Mandyczewski provided a continuo realisation for the concerto, which was
Brandenburg Concertos of a trio sonata for two violas and continuo, although the cello has a decorated version of the continuo bass line. In the last movement, the spirit of the gigue underlies everything, as it did in the finale of the fifth concerto. Because King Frederick William I of Prussia was not a significant patron of the arts, Christian Ludwig seems to have lacked the musicians in his Berlin ensemble to perform the concertos. The full score was left unused in the Margrave's library until his death in 1734, when it was sold for 24 groschen (as of 2014, about US$24)