L'Offrande musicale

Jean-Sébastien Bach · 1747 · Recueil publié en septembre 1747 sur un thème de Frédéric II de Prusse ; un canon repris par le Modern Jazz Quartet (Concorde, 1955)

Context

Collection published in September 1747, born of a visit by Bach to King Frederick II of Prussia in Potsdam on May 7, 1747: the king gave him a theme and Bach improvised fugues on it. The set brings together two ricercars, ten canons and a trio sonata. The Modern Jazz Quartet used one of the canons as an introduction to a standard on its record Concorde (1955).

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Third stream. Among the origins and influences of Third stream: Cool (Birth of the Cool).

By the same artist

• La Passion selon saint Matthieu (1727)

Sources

• wikiwand.com

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