Anna Amalie von Preußen (1723-1787)
- Sonata (F-Dur) per il Flauto traverso e Basso (1771)
Performers: Elisabeth Wеinziеrl (flute); Eva Schiеfеrstеin (cembalo); Philipp von Morgеn (cello)
Further info: Flute Music of Female Composers
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German patron, amateur musician and composer. Son of Friedrich Wilhelm I
(1688-1740) and Sophie Dorothea von Hannover (1687-1757), and sister of
Frederick II (1712-1786), her earliest training in music came only
after the death of her father and was under the tutelage of her brother.
In 1743 she secretly married Baron Friedrich von der Trenck, but when
this became known and her pregnancy discovered, she was packed off to
the cloister at Quedlinburg. She preferred this location, though she
spent most summers thereafter in Berlin at a palace given her by her
brother. In 1755 she became abbess of the secularized convent of
Quedlinburg, a position which afforded her a comfortable income and made
almost no demands on her time. She continued to make her home in
Berlin, where she held musical soirées attended by the artists and
intelligentsia of Berlin and Europe. Adept as a performer on flute,
violin, and keyboard, she formed her own musical circle alongside the
Berlin School, taking composition from both Carl Heinrich Graun and
Johann Kirnberger, beginning in 1758. Her number of compositions is
relatively slight, given that she probably destroyed many in later
years. Among them are several cantatas, marches, and smaller chamber
works much in the style of the Berlin composers. Her greatest
significance to music lies in her music library, a collection of
incalculable value. It is particularly rich in 18th-century music – that
of J.S. Bach above all. She has not to be confused with Anna Amalia,
Duchess of Saxe-Weimar, also a composer.
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