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G. Schirmer's presents Johann Sebastian Bach's Concerto in D Minor for Piano. Of the seven concertos by J.S. Bach for harpsichord and string orchestra, perhaps only one was originally composed for the harpsichord. The others are arrangements of extant concertos for violin. To this last group belongs the Concerto in D minor, the best known and most frequently performed of any of Bach's compositions in this style. Certain solo passages, notably those in the first movement, with the skipping sixteenth-note figurations circling around long, open-string organ-points, indicate rather conclusively its origin as a work for a bowed instrument. Edited by Edwin Hughes. Schirmer Edition, Distributed by Hal Leonard.