[Bach playing the organ for Frederick the Great of Prussia.]
Hermann Kaulbach 1876. Photographische Gesellschaft Berlin [blindstamp, c.1900.] Photogravure. 190 x 305mm (7½ x 12"). Mounted on album paper, some cockling. Johann Sebastian Bach visited the court of Frederick II of Prussia in Potsdam in May 1747. The king played a theme for Bach and challenged him to improvise a fugue based on his theme. Bach obliged, playing a three-part fugue on a fortepiano (not an organ as here), which he soon enlarged and published as 'The Musical Offering', dedicated to Frederick. A photographic copy of a picture by Hermann Kaulbach (1846-1909).
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