The Musical Offering

Name: The Musical Offering
Start: 2027-02-13T19:00:00-08:00
End: 2027-02-13T21:00:00-08:00
Location: Trinity Lutheran Church

Schedule

Sat Feb 13 2027 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

Trinity Lutheran Church | Pasadena, CA

Tesserae presents Bach’s late masterwork, Musikalisches Opfer (The Musical Offering).
About this Event

Tesserae presents Bach’s late masterwork, Musikalisches Opfer (The Musical Offering). The Musical Offering consists of Bach’s contrapuntal exploration of a single theme given to him by the King of Prussia in a famous 1747 visit: a dizzying ascent into musical complexity in a series of canons, ricercars, and the famous Trio Sonata. The music represents the absolute height of Bach’s exploration of music-as-science: the epitome of musical craftsmanship, human ingenuity, and musical discovery.