This year's edition of the Valletta International Baroque Festival begins at the Manoel Theatre with Johann Sebastian Bach's Musical Offering, BWV 1079, on Saturday. The well-known orchestra Le Concert des Nations will be conducted by the Spanish celebrity director, viol player and composer Jordi Savall. Bach dedicated this Musikalisches Opfer to the music-lover and gifted flautist King Frederick the Great of Prussia. It was the king's original theme on which Bach based a collection of keyboard canons and fugues as well as other pieces of music which constitutes this Offering. Bach's son,... This article is part of our premium content. Full story is available on Times of Malta Premium.
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