MDDM Ch. 10 "I Gluttoni"?

[jbor]

on 24/10/01 12:22 AM, Otto at o.sell at telda.net wrote:

> "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 the vast majority of his works remain unpublished.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?

Is a "Scamozetta" a little scam? And is I Gluttoni "The Glutton"? And is
this title just a big scam to end the chapter on after the first two,
incredibly unlikely, composers' names turn out to be both real and
scrupulously historically-accurate? (Note how they are "*transcriptions*
from Quantz"!)

Aunt Euphy, "careering into the room" with her bawdy tales and errant oboe,
is a real treat.

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