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This is the theme composed by Fredrick the Great challanging Bach during a live performance to demonstrate his extraordinary skill in the improvisation of contrapunctal music. It became the subject of the remarkable canons and fugues in Bach's "Musical Offering" which consisted, in its final edition, of the following individual pieces:
| No. 1. | Ricercar a 3 voci | |
| No. 2. | Canones diversi super thema regium | |
| I. | Canon perpetuus | |
| II. | Canon a due Quaerendo invenietis | |
| III. | Canon a quattro | |
| IV. | Canon a due | |
| V. | Canon a due Violini in unisono | |
| VI. | Canon a due per motum contrarium | |
| VII. | Canon a due Per augmentationem contrario motu | |
| [Notulis crescentibus crescat Fortuna Regis] | ||
| VIII. | Canon a due. Per tonos | |
| [Ascendente modulatione ascendat Gloria Regis] | ||
| No. 3. | Fuga canonica in epidiapente | |
| No. 4. | Ricercar a sei voci (six voices) | |
| No. 5. | Sonata (Trio per flauto, violino e continuo) | |
| No. 6. | Canon perpetuus | |
| No. 7. | Fuga (Ricercata) a sei voci (six voices) | |
| No. 8. | Fuga Canonica |