MDMD (10) Quantz

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Johann Joachim Quantz
Compositions by this composer played in the last 30 days on 96.3 WQXR, The
Classical Station of the New York Times you can listen to online:
http://www.wqxr.com/cgi-bin/iowa/cla/composer.html?record=242

Period: Baroque
Born: Wednesday, January 30, 1697 in Obersheden, Germany
Died: Monday, July 12, 1773 in Potsdam, Germany

General Bibliography:
Baker, Theodore and Slonimsky, Nicolas, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of
Musicians, Simon & Schuster, March 1992, ISBN: 0028724151
Bukofzer, Manfred F., Music in the Baroque Era, from Monteverdi to Bach,
W.W. Norton & Company, November 1947, ISBN: 0393097455
Kennedy, Michael, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Oxford University Press,
2nd Edition, 1997, ISBN: 0198691629
Palisca, Claude V. Baroque Music, Prentice Hall, December 1990, ISBN:
0130584967
Sadie, Stanley; Editor, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, St
Martins Press, September 1995, ISBN: 1561591742
http://www.stevenestrella.com/composers/composerfiles/quantz1773.html

Johann Joachim Quantz (1697 - 1773)
short bio with midi file
http://www.karadar.it/Dictionary/quantz.html

"Johann Joachim Quantz (Jan. 30 1697-July 12 1773) is a major figure in the
world of the flute. He is less well-known than he ought to be, though, since
the vast majority of his works remain unpublished. This is due, at least in
part, to the fact that his many sonatas and concertos (several hundred of
each survive) were written for a jealous monarch, who did not care to see
the works he had paid for distributed to a wider public. Of Quantz's works
only six sonatas with continuuo (published in 1734, after Quantz had begun
to teach Frederick the Great, but before he had taken an official position
at court) and six duets (published 1759) appeared in print with Quantz's
permission."
by Tom Moore
http://www.princeton.edu/~mlislib/quantzbrown.html

Johann Joachim Quantz and Frederick the Great. What could we have done
without them?
Essay and bibliography
http://www.gwr.org/flutes/articles/quantz.htm

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