Keyboard concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach soloists, were all adapted into harpsichord concertos by the composer, BWV 1058, 1054 and 1062 respectively. It is often assumed that Bach's extant violin concertos were written in his Köthen period (1717–1723): it can however not be proven from documentary evidence that any of them existed prior to around 1730. In September 1725 Bach performed organ music, accompanied by other instruments, in Dresden. The works he performed there have not been identified. More than a year later he composed several cantatas with an organ obligato part. Several movements of such cantatas were derived from earlier lost concertos, and resurfaced in
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)