Johann Sebastian Bach wrote his fifth Brandenburg Concerto, BWV 1050.2, for harpsichord, flute and violin as soloists, and an orchestral accompaniment consisting of strings and continuo. An early vers
Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg, for whom Bach copied the concerto, portrayed by Antoine Pesne in 1710
Putative portrait of a young Bach
Antonio Vivaldi's autograph of a violin concerto, RV 314, dedicated to Johann Georg Pisendel, a violinist with whom Bach had made acquaintance in his Weimar period, and who worked in Dresden from 1712 until his death in 1755
A single-manual harpsichord conserved in the Bach House in Eisenach