Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 "Brandenburg Concertos" takes a central place. Nonetheless around half a dozen of Bach's extant concertos, including some of the "Brandenburg Concertos" and lost models of his later harpsichord concertos, seem to have had their roots in his Weimar period. Most of what Bach may have left with his employer in Weimar perished in a fire destroying Schloss Weimar in the 1770s. In 1719 a new large two-manual harpsichord arrived in the residence of Bach's then-time employer at Köthen. BWV 1050a, an extant early version of the fifth "Brandenburg Concerto", may have been conceived for this instrument, but that seems unlikely
Piano concertos by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart the concertos in recent years, notably by Philips and Naxos, some of the less-well known concertos may also increase in popularity. The first four concertos are only orchestrations of works by other composers; Gutmann calls these "juvenilia." Gutmann also calls "simplistic" the Concerto for three (or two) pianos and orchestra. With these exceptions, Gutmann writes of Mozart that "all of his mature concertos have been acclaimed as masterpieces". For example, he says Mozart liked his first original concerto, his fifth (K. 175), written at age 17, and performed it through the rest of his life. The discography for Mozart's piano