This composer's pieces include the Hohenfriedberger march. He worked with the composer of "La Caroline," who was an early advocate for the "thumb under" fingering of the scale.
This composer's pieces include the Hohenfriedberger march. He worked with the composer of "La Caroline," who was an early advocate for the "thumb under" fingering of the scale. This musician's orchestra included Carl Heinrich Graun and Franz Benda. One of this musician's employees left him to succeed Georg Philipp Telemann as music director in Hamburg. He was visited by a composer who tried out his Silbermann fortepianos, and improvised a three-part fugue on one of them in 1747. This man was honored with an acrostic spelling the word "Ricercar" in a volume that contains ricercars in three and six parts, as well as pieces like a C-minor trio sonata and a crab canon. This man was the first major employer of the author of An Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments; he also employed the author of On Playing the Flute, Johann Joachim Quantz, who taught him the instrument. For 10 points, name this employer of C.P.E. Bach, the dedicatee of J.S. Bach's Musical Offering.
This composer's pieces include the Hohenfriedberger march. He worked with the composer of "La Caroline," who was an early advocate for the "thumb under" fingering of the scale.
Frederick the Great [or Frederick II of Prussia; or Friedrich der Grosse or II; prompt on "Frederick" or "Friedrich"]