QUANTZ, JOHANN JOACHIM

yōˈhän yōˈäkhĭm kvänts, 1697–1773, German flutist and composer for the flute. In 1741 he became chamber musician and teacher of the flute to Frederick the Great, for whom Quantz wrote more than 500 pieces, including flute sonatas and concertos. He also wrote a famous textbook for the flute, Versuch einer Anweisung die Flöte traversière zu spielen (1752), which was translated into French, English, and Dutch, and invented several improvements upon the instrument.

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Johann Sebastian Bach: The Master and His Work
Book by Wilibald Gurlitt, Oliver C. Rupprecht; Concordia Publishing, 1957
Subjects: Bach, Johann Sebastian--1685-1750
Johann Sebastian Bach THE MASTER AND HIS WORK By WILIBALD...THE American translation of Dr. Wilibald Gurlitt JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH -- Der Meister und sein Werk * has been...which is provided by the family from which the genius of Johann Sebastian Bach sprang. In the history of that family we...
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Johann Sebastian: A Tercentenary Celebration
Book by Seymour L. Benstock; Greenwood Press, 1992
Subjects: Bach, Johann Sebastian--1685-1750--Criticism And Interpretation
...recall that Buffardins student, Johann Joachim Quantz, became the private flute teacher...works of Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms, its mensural associations...Dictionary 1740 s.v. "Hemiola"; Johann Gottfried Walter , Musicalisches...
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The Music of J.S. Bach: Analysis and Interpretation - Vol. 4
Book by David Schulenberg; University of Nebraska Press, 1999
Subjects: Bach, Johann Sebastian--1685-1750--Criticism And Interpretation
...instruments as well as music by the flutist-composer Johann Joachim Quantz, gaining a new perspective on one of Bachs best-known...Thematisch-systematisches Verzeichnis der Werke von Johann Joachim Quantz. Stuttgart: Carus, 1997. RV Ryom-Verzeichnis...
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J.S. Bach
Book by Malcolm Boyd, John Butt; Oxford University Press, 1999
Subjects: Bach, Johann Sebastian--1685-1750--Dictionaries
...Lotti, Antonio Marcello, Alessandro Marcello, Benedetto Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista Quantz, Johann Joachim Scarlatti, Domenico Stolzel, Gottfried Heinrich Telemann, Georg Philipp Vivaldi, Antonio...
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The Social and Religious Designs of J.S. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos
Book by Michael Marissen; Princeton University Press, 1995
Subjects: Bach, Johann Sebastian--1685-1750--Brandenburgische Konzerte
...viola players in Johann Joachim Quantz, Versuch einer...Reader: A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach...Consider, for example, Quantz, Versuch, p...Schriftstucke von der Hand Johann Sebastian Bachs...Neumann and Hans Joachim Schulze Kassel...
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Books Received
Journal article; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 60, 2007
...Politien dans la poesie latine de Joachim Du Bellay"; Hclene Casanova-Robin...John Locke, Isaac Newton and the Johannine Comma"; Warren Johnston, "Thomas...and Venngarn"; Simon McKeown, "Johann Joachim Zeuners Emblematic Manuscript for...


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Rediscovering Classical Keyboard Style
Magazine article by Carol Lei Breckenridge; American Music Teacher, Vol. 55, April 2006
Subjects: Keyboard instruments--Design and construction, Musicians--Technology application
...significant are these four: Johann Joachim Quantz, On Playing the Flute...University Press, 1951. Quantz, Johann Joachim. On Playing the Flute...Schonen Kunste, 2 vols., Johann George Sulzer, ed...1982. NOTES (1.) Quantz, 124-425. (2.) C.P...
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Creativity and Cadenzas in the Studio
Magazine article by Sion M. Honea; American Music Teacher, Vol. 57, December 2007
Subjects: Architects--Influence, Creative ability--Study and teaching, Creativity--Study and teaching, Fowler, Charles--Influence, Music education--Methods, Music in education--Methods, Music teachers--Personal narratives
...Cuthbert Girdlestone (Celle: Herman Moeck, 1961), 117-25; Johann Joachim Quantz, On Playing the Flute, trans. Edward Reilly (Boston: Northeastern University, 1976), 181-86; Johann Adam Hiller, Treatise of Vocal Performance and Ornamentation...
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Joseph Haydn and the German Nation: A Subject and Servant of Europe's Most Cosmopolitan Empire, the Composer Joseph Haydn Played an Important Role in the Emergence of German Cultural Nationalism during the 18th and 19th Centuries
Magazine article by Tim Blanning; History Today, Vol. 59, May 2009
Subjects: Composers--Appreciation, Composers--Works, Haydn, Joseph--Appreciation, Haydn, Joseph--Works
...Philipp Telemann (1681-1767), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Georg Friedrich Handel (1685-1759), Johann Joachim Quantz (1697-1773), Johann Adolf Hasse (1699-1783), Carl Heinrich Graun (1703-59), Franz Benda (170986), Frederick the Great of...


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Quantz, Johann Joachim
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
QUANTZ, JOHANN JOACHIM yo han yo akhim kvants, 1697 1773, German flutist and composer for...chamber musician and teacher of the flute to Frederick the Great, for whom Quantz wrote more than 500 pieces, including flute sonatas and concertos. He...


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