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(Yo’-han Yo-a’-khem Kvants) 1697–1773 German composer and flautist After training in Merseburg, Quantz went to Dresden and Vienna, where he studied with Fux and Zelenka (1716). Further travels took him to Prague, Rome, Paris and London, where he met Handel. In 1727 he became a member of the Dresden court. In the following year he gave flute ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

by J. S. Bach as well as Vivaldi and Couperin. At the end of the Baroque period, a four-piece flute established itself, still with one key. J. J. Quantz A significant name in the history of the Baroque flute is Johann Joachim Quantz (1697–1773), who wrote a treatise on playing the flute and was himself a maker, player ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

opera. Recommended Recording: La serva padrona, Livietta e Tracollo, soloists, La Petite Bande (dir) Sigiswald Kuijken (Accent) Introduction | Late Baroque | Classical Personalities | Johann Joachim Quantz | Late Baroque | Classical ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

other than music were noted for their prowess as instrumental performers. Prussia’s Frederick the Great, for example, was a gifted flautist, employing composers such as Johann Joachim Quantz (1697–1773), as well as writing his own music for the instrument. Introduction | Late Baroque | Classical Arts & Culture | Musical Theory | Late Baroque | Classical ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

1703) and Johann Walter (Musicalisches Lexicon, 1732). Their ideas and others were later discussed and developed by a profusion of composers, theorists and lexicographers among whom Mattheson, Quantz and Avison made important contributions to the debate. Mattheson, in addition to his many theoretical writings, produced the first lexicon to include biographical information on German musicians (Grundlage ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

there are three important mid-century writers who between them summarize many aspects of performance: C. P. E. Bach on the keyboard, Leopold Mozart on the violin and Johann Joachim Quantz on the flute. A little later comes D. G. Türk’s book on the keyboard. The growing world of amateur music-making was well served. In France, musical lexicography flourished from ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie
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