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Frederick the Great Playing the Flute at Sanssouci or The Flute Concert is an 1852 oil on canvas history painting by the German painter Adolph Menzel.It depicts Frederick the Great, King of Prussia playing the flute at an evening concert at Sanssouci and is now in the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin.
His flute sonatas were often composed in collaboration with Johann Joachim Quantz, [235] who was Frederick's occasional music tutor in his youth [236] and joined his court as composer and flute maker in 1741. [237] Frederick's flute sonatas are written in the Baroque style in which flute plays the melody, sometimes imitating operatic vocal ...
"The Flute Concert of Sanssouci" by Adolph von Menzel, 1852, depicts Frederick the Great playing the flute in his music room at Sanssouci. In the Baroque tradition, the principal rooms (including the bedrooms and toilets) are all on the piano nobile, which at Sanssouci was the ground floor by Frederick's choice.
Johann Joachim Quantz (German:; 30 January 1697 – 12 July 1773) was a German composer, flutist and flute maker of the late Baroque period.Much of his professional career was spent in the court of Frederick the Great.
A flute concerto is a concerto for solo flute and instrumental ensemble, customarily the orchestra. ... Frederick the Great (1712–1786) 4 concertos for flute and ...
Adolph Menzel depicted events from the life of Frederick both in the wood-engravings to illustrate the Geschichte Friedrichs des Grossen by Franz Kugler [122] [123] and in several of his paintings, [124] including Frederick the Great Playing the Flute at Sanssouci as the most famous work. [125]
Flötenkonzert Friedrichs des Großen in Sanssouci ("Frederick the Great's Flute Concert in Sanssouci") by Adolph von Menzel, 1852, depicts Frederick the Great playing the flute as C. P. E. Bach accompanies on the keyboard. The audience (invented by Menzel, and not based on any actual occasion) includes Bach's colleagues as well as nobles.
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