The Musical Offering
COLLECTION OF COMPOSITIONS BY JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Musical Offering; Musikalische Opfer; Das Musikalische Opfer; Musikalisches Opfer; A Musical Offering; BWV 1079; Musical offering; Endlessly rising canon; Musicalisches Opfer; BWV1079
The Musical Offering (German: or ), BWV 1079, is a collection of keyboard canons and fugues and other pieces of music by Johann Sebastian Bach, all based on a single musical theme given to him by Frederick the Great (King Frederick II of Prussia), to whom they are dedicated. They were published in September 1747.