Johann Joachim Quantz

Johann Joachim Quantz (born the January 30th 1697 with Scheden in Lower Saxony; and deceased the July 12th 1773 with Potsdam), was a Compositeur, flutist and the professor of Flûte of the king Frederic II of Prussia.

Biography

Born like wire from a Blacksmith, it begins his musical studies after the death of his parents in 1708, with his uncle Justus Quantz, member of the orchestra of the city Mersebourg. After the death of the uncle, his son-in-law Johann Adolf Fleischhack takes again Quantz as raises. At the end of its studies, he learned how to play the principal string instruments, the oboe and the trumpet.

In March 1716, it engages with the orchestra of the town of Dresden, one year later it goes to Vienna to study the composition with Jan Dismas Zelenka and Johann Joseph Fux. In 1718 he became hautboist in the vault of Auguste the Fort with Dresden. It is only in 1718 qu ' it has its first contact with the flute and takes courses with the French flutist Pierre-Gabriel Buffardin. During a voyage to Rome it improves in the art of the counterpoint at Francesco Gasparini. During other voyages in Europe it makes the personal knowledge of Alessandro Scarlatti and Georg Friedrich Händel.

In 1728 he is flutist with the vault of Dresden. At the time of a visit of the vault in Berlin, Quantz is pointed out by Frederic prince de Prusse who takes from 1728 of the lessons flute with him. Even after the death of Auguste II, Quantz does not have the authorization to go to Berlin, for that prince Frederic must go to Dresden.

In 1740, prince Frederic becomes king de Prusse he offers to Quantz a triple remuneration that of the court of Dresden and an exemption of the loads to the orchestra of the Opera. Quantz is then placed under the orders direct of the king and daily courses of flute and composition give him. Quantz accompanies Frederic even during his military campaigns.

As musician of the room of the king and type-setter of the court of Potsdam, it is charged to organize the night concerts of the king during thirty years. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Franz Benda belongs to this circle élitaire musicians of room. Seul Quantz has the privilege to criticize the king, that is to say in the positive or negative direction term. Quantz writes approximately five hundred works which show the influence of the Italian style, and particularly that of Antonio Vivaldi. It also specifies that its play and its compositions were influenced by the violonist Johann Georg Pisendel and by Johann Adolph Hasse. For the project Storia della Musica of the Padre Martini Quantz in 1762 an autobiography wrote.

Quantz moreover built flutes and made to this instrument improvements important on the technical plans and sound, in particular by the addition of one second key. The type-setters Johann Sebastian Bach and Georg Philipp Telemann have to know the instruments of Quantz and adapted their compositions to the new technical possibilities of this one. Five instruments manufactured by the care of Quantz survived time.

Works

Its compositions are generally devoted to the Flute, including more than 200 sonatas, surroundings 300 concertos for flute and 45 sonatas in trio. The major part as of its works exists only in manuscripts and is in the Staatsbibliothek in Berlin.

Theoretical work: Versuch einer Anweisung die Flöte bridging piece zu spielen

Bonds

Site of the family of Hohenzollern relating to Johann Joachim Quantz
Information of the Quantz company in Scheden
Sonata in trio, Partition free

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