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
Province of Brandenburg the Bear, another Saxon count from the noble House of Ascania, who established the Margraviate of Brandenburg in 1157. His son Margrave Otto I already achieved the dignity of an Arch-Chamberlain of the Holy Roman Empire in 1177. Emperor Charles IV by the Golden Bull of 1356 confirmed the electoral dignity of the Brandenburg margraves and in 1373 assigned the electorate to his son Wenceslaus in 1373. The Elector of Brandenburg held the seventh rank among the electors of the Empire and had five votes in the Council of Princes. In 1415 Brandenburg was acquired by Burgrave Frederick of Nuremberg,