On PLaying the Flute

Informationen zum Autor Johann Joachim Quantz (1697-1773), son of a blacksmith, enjoyed a long and successful career as a virtuoso soloist, orchestral performer, composer, teacher, writer, flute maker, and tutor and Royal Prussian Chamber Musician to Frederick the Great. Klappentext Johann Joachim Quantz's On Playing the Flute has long been recognized as one of the primary sources of information about eighteenth-century performance practice. Johann Joachim Quantz's seminal On Playing the Flute is a seminal historical guide to classical music, as well as remaining invaluable and hugely relevant on how to be a musician. Zusammenfassung Johann Joachim Quantz's On Playing the Flute has long been recognized as one of the primary sources of information about eighteenth-century performance practice.

Product details

• Authors: Johann Joachim Quantz, Quantz Johann Joachim
• Assisted by: Edward R. Reilly (Translation)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.03.2001
• EAN: 9780571207800
• ISBN: 978-0-571-20780-0
• No. of pages: 464
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 233 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; MUSIC / Instruction & Study / General, HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century, MUSIC / Musical Instruments / Woodwinds, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, baroque, Techniques of music / music tutorials / teaching of music, Classical style, Wind Instruments, Early 18th century c 1700 to c 1750, Art music, orchestral and formal music