JOHANN JOACHIM QUANTZ

Hailey Buckley
Aug 31, 2018 · 8 min read

The history of composition, as in many lines of work, is rich with artists who are variously generalists or specialists. The former write for several kinds of performers and in several forms. Mozart, for example, wrote for voices and for instruments, operas, masses, symphonies, concertos, chamber music, piano sonatas, songs. Victoria, by contrast, wrote exclusively for choir, and only liturgical pieces. Chopin, similarly, wrote exclusively for the…

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"Alphabeticon" is a series of small books about men and women, past and present, who have been important in various fields of human endeavour, such as the arts and sciences, politics, religion, sport, and so on. Each volume contains twenty-six chapters; alphabetically arranged.

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