In early 1729 Bach became director of the so-called »Scottish Collegium Musician« a music organization of students and local citizens. The remarkable results of this undertaking are the concertos for harpsichord. Today it is almost certain that practically all of these concertos were transcribed from concertos for melody instruments (mostly violin or oboe).The D-major Concerto BWV 1054 originated as a transcription of Bach’s Violin Concerto in E major BWV 1042. The principal source for our edition is the autograph score of Bach’s harpsichord concertos preserved in the Berlin Staatsbibliothek (Mus. ms. Bach P 234) where BWV 1054 forms the third item. Toaccommodate the upper limit of the harpsichord keyboard Bach decided to transpose the piece down a whole tone which allowed him to retain the frequently occurring peak pitch e3 without altering the melodic line.The D-major Concerto owes its popularity to the clear and straightforward formal design of its movements no less than its overall mood of relaxed merriment. This mood also finds expression in Bach’s choice of the rondo form for the final movement a form otherwise seldom encountered in his concertos.Urtext of the New Bach EditionFull score & parts (BA5226) two-keyboard reduction (BA5226-90) and study score (TP410) format 22.5 x 16.5cm (all 6 concertos) available for sale

Edition for piano two violins viola and violoncello-Edition for piano two violins viola and violoncello (2-piano reduction with 1 each of the string parts) 'Mr. Mozart Kapellmeister wishes to announce to the most worthy public the appearance in print of three of his recently contrived piano concertos. These three concertos may be performed not only with a large orchestra including wind instruments but also a quattro that is with two violins one viola and violoncello. They will be issued early in April of this year (1783).' As this advertisement shows it was Mozart's intention to keep the accompaniment part flexible in his piano concertos K.413-5 and as we know from a letter Mozart wrote to his father inK.449 as well. In addition to orchestral forces it is also possible to use a chamber setting with string instruments one to a part. This chamber music edition accommodates this option thereby enriching Mozart's charming chamber music with piano. These editions of Mozart's Piano Concertos are based on the Urtext editions published in the New Mozart Edition. In the present arrangement for two pianos the solo Part - as well as the strings - are unchanged and thus identical with the version in the NMA. The piano arrangement adheres to the original orchestral score. Chamber music editions available for: Piano Concerto No.11 in F major K.413 BA4875Piano Concerto No.12 in A major K.414 BA4877Piano Concerto No.13 in C major K.415 BA4879Piano Concerto No.14 in E-flat major K.449 BA4871

INTRODUCTION
The Four Seasons : Sonnet Texts
Bibliography
Il Cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione
(The Contest of Harmony and Invention)
Twelve Concertos for violin, strings, and continuo
(Opus 8)
THE FOUR SEASONS (OPUS 8, NOS. 1-4)
Concerto No. 1 in E Major: La Primavera ( Spring )
(Op. 8, No. 1 / RV 269)
I. Allegro
II. Largo
III. Allegro
Concerto No. 2 in G Minor: L'Estate ( Summer )
(Op. 8, No. 2 / RV 315)
I. Allegro non molto
II. Adagio
III. Presto
Concerto No. 3 in F Major: L'Autunno ( Autumn )
(Op. 8, No. 3 / RV 293)
I. Allegro
II. Adagio molto
III. Allegro
Concerto No. 4 in F Minor: L'Inverno ( Winter )
(Op. 8, No. 4 / RV 297)
I. Allegro non molto
II. Largo
III. Allegro
OTHER VIOLIN CONCERTOS (OPUS 8, NOS. 5-12)
Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major: La Tempesta di Mare ( The Storm at Sea )
(Op. 8, No. 5 / RV 253)
I. Presto
II. Largo
III. Presto
Concerto No. 6 in C Major: Il Piacere ( Pleasure )
(Op. 8, No. 6 / RV 180)
I. Allegro
II. Largo e cantabile
III. Allegro
Concerto No. 7 in D Minor
(Op. 8, No. 7 / RV 242)
I. Allegro
II. Largo
III. Allegro
Concerto No. 8 in G Minor
(Op. 8, No, 8 / RV 332)
I. Allegro
II. Largo
III. Allegro
Concerto No. 9 in D Minor
(Op. 8, No. 9 / RV 236)
I. Allegro
II. Largo
III. Allegro
Concerto No. 10 in B-flat Major: La Caccia ( The Hunt )
(Op. 8, No. 10 / RV 362)
I. Allegro
II. Adagio
III. Allegro
Conceto No. 11 in D Major
(Op. 8, No. 11 / RV 210)
I. Allegro
II. Largo
III. Allegro
Concerto No. 12 in C Major
(Op. 8, No. 12 / RV 178)
I. Allegro
II. Largo
III. Allegro
IMPORTANT VARIANTS
How to Use the Variants
Concerto No. 7 in D Minor (RV 242)
Allegro (Movement I)
a. Substitute for Bars 50-76
Concerto No. 9 in D Minor (RV
(Version for Oboe, Strings and Continuo, RV 454)
Allegro (Movement I)
a. Substitute for Bars 91-102
Concerto No. 11 in D Major (RV 210)
Allegro (Movement I)
a. Substitute for Bars 100-112
b. Substitute for Bars 122-132
Allegro (Movement II)
c. Substitute for Bars 38-67
d. Substitute for Bars 113-154
e. Substitute for Bars 171-214
f. Substitute for Bars 171-208
CRITICAL NOTES
The Sources
The Amsterdam Print
The Dresden Manuscripts
The Manchester Partbooks
The Turin Autograph Scores
The Dover Edition
Text Fonts Used in The Four Seasons

In early 1729 Bach became director of the so-called »Scottish Collegium Musician« a music organization of students and local citizens. The remarkable results of this undertaking are the concertos for Harpsichord. Today it is almost certain that practically all of these concertos were transcribed from concertos for melody instruments (mostly Violin or Oboe).- Urtext of the New Bach Edition- Full scores and performing material to the five concertos for Harpsichord and Strings BWV 1052-1056 (BA5224-BA5228) the concerto for Harpsichord two Recorders and Strings BWV 1057 (BA5229) as well as the concerto BWV 1058 (BA5230) also for Harpsichordand Strings based on the Violin concerto in A minor are available for sale.- Study score of the Complete Concertos for Keyboard format 22.5 x 16.5cm (TP410)

E major BWV 1053-In early 1729 Bach became director of the so-called »Scottish Collegium Musician« a music organization of students and local citizens. The remarkable results of this undertaking are the concertos for harpsichord. Today it is almost certain that practically all of these concertos were transcribed from concertos for melody instruments (mostly violin or oboe).BWV 1053 is the second piece in the autograph score of harpsichord concertos that Bach prepared in or around 1738 (Berlin Staatsbibliothek Mus. ms. Bach P 234). It was probably transcribed from a concerto for a solo woodwind instrument although opinions differ on the original key and instrument. Bach had alreadyreworked the original concerto in two church cantatas in the autumn of 1726 (BWV 49 and BWV 169) at which time he assigned the solo part to the organ. Perhaps the original concerto is not much older than these cantatas for the siciliano slow movement is closely related in expression to many numbers from his great Passion settings.Urtext of the New Bach EditionFull score & parts (BA5225) two-keyboard reduction (BA5225-90) and study score (TP410) format 22.5 x 16.5cm (all 6 concertos) available for sale

In early 1729 Bach became director of the so-called »Scottish Collegium Musician« a music organization of students and local citizens. The remarkable results of this undertaking are the concertos for Harpsichord. Today it is almost certain that practically all of these concertos were transcribed from concertos for melody instruments (mostly Violin or Oboe).- Urtext of the New Bach Edition- Full scores and performing material to the five concertos for Harpsichord and Strings BWV 1052-1056 (BA5224-BA5228) the concerto for Harpsichord two Recorders and Strings BWV 1057 (BA5229) as well as the concerto BWV 1058 (BA5230) also for Harpsichordand Strings based on the Violin concerto in A minor are available for sale.- Study score of the Complete Concertos for Keyboard format 22.5 x 16.5cm (TP410)

In early 1729 Bach became director of the so-called »Scottish Collegium Musician« a music organization of students and local citizens. The remarkable results of this undertaking are the concertos for harpsichord. Today it is almost certain that practically all of these concertos were transcribed from concertos for melody instruments (mostly violin or oboe).BWV 1053 is the second piece in the autograph score of harpsichord concertos that Bach prepared in or around 1738 (Berlin Staatsbibliothek Mus. ms. Bach P 234). It was probably transcribed from a concerto for a solo woodwind instrument although opinions differ on the original key and instrument. Bach had alreadyreworked the original concerto in two church cantatas in the autumn of 1726 (BWV 49 and BWV 169) at which time he assigned the solo part to the organ. Perhaps the original concerto is not much older than these cantatas for the siciliano slow movement is closely related in expression to many numbers from his great Passion settings.Urtext of the New Bach EditionFull score & parts (BA5225) two-keyboard reduction (BA5225-90) and study score (TP410) format 22.5 x 16.5cm (all 6 concertos) available for sale

A major BWV 1055-In early 1729 Bach became director of the so-called »Scottish Collegium Musician« a music organization of students and local citizens. The remarkable results of this undertaking are the concertos for Harpsichord. Today it is almost certain that practically all of these concertos were transcribed from concertos for melody instruments (mostly Violin or Oboe).- Urtext of the New Bach Edition- Full scores and performing material to the five concertos for Harpsichord and Strings BWV 1052-1056 (BA5224-BA5228) the concerto for Harpsichord two Recorders and Strings BWV 1057 (BA5229) as well as the concerto BWV 1058 (BA5230) also for Harpsichordand Strings based on the Violin concerto in A minor are available for sale.- Study score of the Complete Concertos for Keyboard format 22.5 x 16.5cm (TP410)

3 CONCERTOS POUR FLUTE A BEC SOPRANINO- Concerto in La minore P.83- Concerto in Do maggiore P.79- Concerto in Do maggiore P.783 CONCERTOS POUR FLUTE A BEC ALTO- Concerto in Do minore P.440- Concerto in La minore P.77- Concerto in Sol maggiore

12 Concertos For Violin, Strings And Basso Continuo. Par VIVALDI ANTONIO. Antonio Vivaldi's twelve concertos op. 4 known by the name of 'La Stravaganza” were first mentioned as a collection of 'Concerti a 4” in the 1711 Foreword of 'L'Estro Armonico” op. 3. Their publication had to wait until 1716, when Estienne Roger issued them in two volumes of six concertos each. However, unlike the original announcement, 'La Stravaganza” is more than a collection of concertos for solo violin with string accompaniment: in five of the concertos the soloist is joined by a second solo violin or even by a solo violoncello (Concerto No. 7). The many reprints of 'La Stravaganza” bear witness to its popularity and widespread dissemination well into the 1730s. Besides the surviving prints, there is a significant body of handwritten sources containing alternative versions for seven of the concertos. Some of these manuscripts stem from the music library of Johann Georg Pisendel. This edition of 'La Stravaganza” is not only the first scholarly-critical edition, it is also the only complete edition available. In addition to the twelve concertos handed down in the Roger edition, Bärenreiter offers an additional concerto in full score, piano reduction and parts contained in the 1728 print issued by the English publishers Walsh and Hare, as well as alternative versions (without viola) found in handwritten sources for Concertos No. 6 (Volume 1) and No. 11 (Volume 2)./ Répertoire / Violon, Cordes et Basse Continue

Features 16 of Bach's transcriptions for solo keyboard instruments (piano and harpsichord) of concertos for violin and other non-keyboard instruments by Vivaldi, Telemann, and others. Reprinted from the definitive Bach-Gesellschaft edition prepared by Ernst Naumann. Content :
Concerto No. 1 in D major, BWV 972 (based on a violin concerto by Antonio Vivaldi, op. 3, no. 9)
[ALLEGRO]. LARGHETTO. ALLEGRO.
Concerto No. 2 in G major, BWV 973 (based on a violin concerto by Antonio Vivaldi, op. 7, book 2, no. 2)
[ALLEGRO]. LARGO. ALLEGRO.
Concerto No. 3 in D minor, BWV 974 (based on an oboe concerto by Allessandro Marcello)
[ALLEGRO]. ADAGIO. PRESTO.
Concerto No. 4 in G minor, BWV 975 (based on a violin concerto by Antonio Vivaldi, op. 4, no. 6)
[ALLEGRO]. LARGO. GIGA: PRESTO.
Concerto No. 5 in C major, BWV 976 (based on a violin concerto by Antonio Vivaldi, op. 3, no. 12)
[ALLEGRO]. LARGO. ALLEGRO.
Concerto No. 6 in C major, BWV 977 (source unknown)
[ALLEGRO]. ADAGIO. GIGA.
Concerto No. 7 in F major, BWV 978 (based on a violin concerto by Antonio Vivaldi, op. 3, no. 3)
ALLEGRO. LARGO. ALLEGRO.
Concerto No. 8 in B minor, BWV 979 (source unknown)
[ADAGIO]-ALLEGRO. ADAGIO. ALLEGRO.
Concerto No. 9 in G major, BWV 980 (based on a violin concerto by Antonio Vivaldi, op. 4, no. 1)
[ALLEGRO]. LARGO. ALLEGRO.
Concerto No. 10 in C minor, BWV 981 (based on a concerto by Benedetto Marcello, op. 1, no. 2)
[ADAGIO. VIVACE. [LARGO]. PRESTISSIMO.
Concerto No. 11 in B-flat major, BWV 982 (based on a violin concerto by Duke Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar, op. 1, no. 1)
[ALLEGRO]. ADAGIO. ALLEGRO.
Concerto No. 12 in G minor, BWV 983 (source unknown)
[ALLEGRO]. ADAGIO. ALLEGRO.
Concerto No. 13 in C major, BWV 984 (based on a concerto by Duke Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar)
[ALLEGRO]. ADAGIO E AFFETTUOSO. ALLEGRO ASSAI.
Concerto No. 14 in G minor, BWV 985 (based on a violin concerto by Georg Philipp Telemann)
[ALLEGRO]. ADAGIO. ALLEGRO.
Concerto No. 15 in G major, BWV 986 (source unknown)
[ALLEGRO]. ADAGIO. ALLEGRO.
Concerto No. 16 in D minor, BWV 987 (based on a violin concerto by Duke Johann Erns of Saxe-Weimar, op. 1, no. 4)
[GRAVE]-PRESTO. ALLEGRO.