Johann Joachim Quantz
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Johann Joachim Quantz was a German composer, flautist and flute maker of the late Baroque period. Much of his professional career was spent in the court of Frederick the Great, where he served as the
1735 portrait
Portrait by Johann David Schleuen, 1767
Frederick the Great playing a flute concerto in Sanssouci, C. P. E. Bach at the harpsichord, Quantz leaning on the wall to the right; by Adolph Menzel, 1852
Hans Hermann von Katte
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Hans Hermann von Katte was a Lieutenant of the Prussian Army, and a friend, tutor and possible lover of the future King Frederick II of Prussia, who was at the time the Crown Prince. Katte was execute
Johann Joachim Quantz
…twice a year. In June 1730 he took part in the Zeithainer Lustlager and travelled to Berlin. Quantz later told writer Friedrich Nicolai that he and Hans Hermann von Katte one day had to hide in a closet during an outburst of Frederick's domineering father, who disapproved of his son's hairstyle, musical studies, questionable…
Katte
Katte's decapitation
Mausoleum of the Katte family in Wust, Sachsen-Anhalt
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