Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 edited by Karl Geiringer for a publication of the score by Wiener Philharmonischer Verlag. Universal Edition later published Mandyczewski's version in a new revision by . Heinrich Besseler was Bärenreiter's editor for the "Brandenburg Concertos" in the New Bach Edition (Neue Bach-Ausgabe, NBA). In 1959 Bärenreiter published August Wenzinger's performance edition of the fifth "Brandenburg Concerto", based on the 1956 New Bach Edition Urtext, and with a continuo realisation by . Previously, Bärenreiter had also published performance material of the concerto with a continuo realisation by Günter Raphael. Bärenreiter published Alfred Dürr's edition of the early BWV 1050a version of
Keyboard concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach timing matched the publication of the first ever collection of keyboard concertos, the widely acclaimed and well-selling Organ concertos, Op.4 of George Frederic Handel published in London and Paris in 1738. The harpsichord concertos were composed in a manner completely idiomatic to the keyboard (this was equally true for those written for two or more harpsichords). They were almost certainly originally conceived for a small chamber group, with one instrument per desk, even if performed on one of the newly developed fortepianos, which only gradually acquired the potential for producing a louder dynamic. The keyboard writing also conforms to a