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
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