The Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041, is a violin concerto by Johann Sebastian Bach. It shows the influence of Italian composers such as Bach's older contemporary Vivaldi. Bach is known to have studied Vivaldi's music from around 1714 when he was working at Weimar. Italian influence can be seen in keyboard music he composed around that time. However, the date of the concerto is the subject of dispute as the original score has not survived. It could have been written at any of three locations:

Structure and analysis

The piece has three movements:

1. Allegro moderato, in A minor, meter;
2. Andante, in C major, meter;
3. Allegro assai, in A minor, meter. A typical performance of the concerto takes around 15 minutes.

Publication

The concerto was published for the first time in 1852. In the 1870s Wilhelm Rust edited it for publication in the first complete edition of Bach's works.

Instrumentations and transcriptions

The Keyboard Concerto in G minor, BWV 1058 is an arrangement of this concerto with harpsichord.