Keyboard concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach the harpsichord concertos BWV 1052, 1053 and 1059. Based on harpsichord concertos and earlier cantata movements orchestral organ concertos were reconstructed and/or transcribed and arranged. The parts from the Concerto for four harpsichords BWV 1065 (Bach's arrangement of the Concerto for Four Violins, RV 580, by Antonio Vivaldi), have been dated to around 1730. Whereas the concertos with a single harpsichord soloist were composed partly to showcase Bach's own prowess at the keyboard, the others were written for different purposes, one of them being as —music for domestic performance within the Bach household at the Thomaschule in Leipzig. Johann Nikolaus
Brandenburg Concertos of silver. The autograph manuscript of the concertos was only rediscovered in the archives of Brandenburg by Siegfried Wilhelm Dehn in 1849; the concertos were first published in the following year. The manuscript was nearly lost in World War II, when being transported for safekeeping to Prussia by train in the care of a librarian. The train came under aerial bombardment, and the librarian escaped the train to the nearby forest, with the scores hidden under his coat. In the modern era these works have been performed by orchestras with the string parts each played by a number of players,