Although the author is most often identified as the teacher of Frederick the Great, his musical roots were in Dresden and his travels and studies in Italy, France and England gave him direct experience of phases of European musical life in the 1720s and 30s. This title deals with the musical taste a[...]
Johann Joachim Quantz's On Playing Flute has long been recognized as one of the most significant and in-depth treatises on eighteenth-century musical thought, performance practice, and style. This classic text of Baroque music instruction goes far beyond an introduction to flute methods by offering [...]