Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 Another coincidence is that the concerto's middle movement is built on a theme composed by Marchand, as if Bach wanted to show off to his prospective competitor how he could elaborate that theme quite differently from its composer's original treatment. The possibility of a performance of the early version of the fifth "Brandenburg Concerto" in Dresden in 1717 was first tentatively proposed by harpsichordist and musicologist in the early 1990s. Although the hypothesis rests on a complex of circumstantial indications without direct evidence, it has been picked up by Bach scholars. Formally the fifth "Brandenburg Concerto" is a concerto grosso,
Jim Brandenburg His work has been included in many other magazines, such as "Life", "Newsweek", "The Smithsonian", and "GEO" and has been featured on all the major television and radio networks including ABC's Prime Time Live and CBS News Sunday Morning and Dateline NBC as well as National Public Radio's All Things Considered. Brandenburg was commissioned by the United States Postal Service to create a set of wildlife stamps. They were released on May 14, 1981. In 1980, Brandenburg learned of a population of wolves on Ellesmere Island who had not yet had the fear of man instilled into them. Brandenburg therefore