Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 the concerto to the set of "Brandenburg Concertos" in 1721 he had reworked it for a two-manual harpsichord, expanding the accompaniment with an additional cello part. Because of the limited input of the violin and flute solo parts, as compared to that of the harpsichord, the concerto can be seen as a harpsichord concerto, moreover, the first harpsichord concerto ever written. Nonetheless, the structure of the concerto and the soloist material of the harpsichordist are greatly indebted to violin concertos such as Vivaldi's "Grosso mogul" (which Bach had transcribed for organ, BWV 594) and Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar's G major
Piano concertos by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart elevated to the most prominent position among the instruments. These works, with their alternation of orchestral "tuttis" and passages for solo display, in turn owe their structure to the tradition of Baroque operatic arias, from which the first movements of Mozart's piano concertos inherited their basic ritornello form. A similar structure can also be seen in the violin concerti of, for example, Vivaldi, who established the form, along with the three-movement concerto structure, and Viotti, wherein the concerto is divided into six sections. The keyboard parts of the concertos were almost invariably based on material presented in the ritornelli, and