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Category:	Baroque Music
Name:	Johann Joachim Quantz
Birth Year:	1697
Death Year:	1773
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Biography, Lectures, and Research Links:	Biography Blog Johann Joachim Quantz Artist Song Name Composer Composition Instrument Johann Joachim Quantz was a German flautist, flute maker and composer. He was born on January 30, 1697 in Oberscheden, near Gottingen, Germany, and died on July 12, 1773 in Potsdam. Quantz began his musical studies as a child with his uncle (his blacksmith father died when Quantz was young), later going to Dresden and Vienna. It was during his time as musician to Frederick Augustus II of Poland that he began to concentrate on the flute, performing more and more on the instrument. He gradually became known as the finest flautist in Europe, and toured France and England. He became flute teacher, flute maker and composer to Frederick II of Prussia (Frederick the Great) in 1740. He was an innovator in flute design, adding keys to the instrument to help with intonation (playing in tune), for example. Although Quantz wrote many pieces of music, mainly for the flute (including around 300 flute concertos), he is best known today as the author of Versuch einer Anweisung die Flote traversiere zu spielen (1752), a treatise on flute playing. It is of great interest today as a source of information on performance practice and flute technique in the 18th century. [This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License and uses material adapted in whole or in part from the Wikipedia article on Johann Joachim Quantz.] The Great Books: Johann Joachim Quantz Please browse our Amazon list of titles about Johann Joachim Quantz. For rare and hard to find works we recommend our Alibris list of titles about Johann Joachim Quantz. Post Comments, Questions or Suggestions! This database is maintained by Malaspina Great Books.
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