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Alles Gute zum Geburtstag Anna Amalie von Preußen! 👑🎁 Composer: Anna Amalie von Preußen (1723-1787) Work: Sonata (F-Dur) per il Flauto traverso e Basso (1771) Performers: Elisabeth Wеinziеrl (flute); Eva Schiеfеrstеin (cembalo); Philipp von Morgеn (cello) Sonata per il Flauto traverso (1771) 1. Adagio 0:00 2. Allegretto 3:03 3. Allegro ma non troppo 6:39 Painting: Johann Heinrich Tischbein (1722-1789) - Fürst Carl von Waldeck und Pyrmont und seine Familie HD image: Painting: Antoine Pesne (1683-1757) - Prinzessin Amalia von Preussen (1757) HD image: Further info: Listen free: --- Anna Amalie (Amalia, Amélie), Prinzessin von Preußen [Äbtissin von Quedlinburg] (Berlin, 9 November 1723 - Berlin, 30 March 1787). German patron, amateur musician and composer. Daughter 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.
