Death Anniversary: Johann Joachim Quantz — July 12, 1773
He died in Potsdam on 12 July 1773. As flute tutor and royal chamber composer to King Frederick the Great of Prussia from 1741, he composed over three hundred flute concertos and published his seminal 1752 treatise Versuch einer Anweisung die Flöte traversiere zu spielen, the definitive source on eighteenth-century performance practice.
Dates verified on Edward R. Reilly, Quantz and His Versuch: Three Studies, American Musicological Society, 1971; Horst Augsbach, Johann Joachim Quantz: Thematisch-systematisches Werkverzeichnis (QV), Carus, Stuttgart, 1997, ISBN 978-3923053476.
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