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3D Object Flute in C, DCM 0916 Frederick the Great flute

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Title

  • Flute in C, DCM 0916

Other Title

  • Frederick the Great flute

Names

  • Quantz, Johann Joachim, 1697-1773, creator person of work
  • Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786, former owner person

Created / Published

  • [Berlin], [approximately 1740?]

Headings

  • -  Flute--Specimens

Genre

  • flutes

Notes

  • -  Title supplied by cataloger.
  • -  The head joint contains the Quantz model wooden tuning slide which incorporates a brass socket liner. Great degree of undercutting on the embouchure. On foot, the thick inner brass ring is not visible when flute is assembled, and is found under the ivory mount. See Mary Oleskiewicz, "A Museum, a World War, and a Rediscovery: Flutes by Quantz and Others from the Hohenzollern Museum," Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society 24 (1998): 107-145; and, Mary Oleskiewicz, "The Flutes of Quantz: Their Construction and Performing Practice," The Galpin Society Journal 53 (April 2000): 201-220.
  • -  Materials: Ebony, silver keys, ivory ferrule, ivory and metal ferrule, and silver/ivory/wood/brass foot joint ferrule.
  • -  4 sections, conical, tuning slide in head, plus 5 extra corps de rechange.
  • -  Key holes system: 2 keys (E-flat, D-sharp), square flaps. The current key springs are of tempered steel and attached with roundhead steel screws. A=385.
  • -  Mark maximum: XIII
  • -  Mark additional: Roman numerals or opus number incised on ends of tenons. Marks scratched on corps de rechange numbered I-IIIII (not on IIIIII) which is from Op. II, at Leipzig. See Langwill for further description of mark.
  • -  Condition: Brass lining for tuning slide missing, but evidence of glue and threads remain. Two cracks in upper head section. Ebony chips missing from inside of foot joint socket. Foot joint ivory ferrule cracked in 3 places, small crack inside lower body socket.
  • -  Case: Case, decorated porcelain casket with gilded hardware.
  • -  This flute belonged to Frederick the Great; after his death it was presented by his successor King Frederick William II to his minister, Johann Christoph von Wöllner (Woellner). It was then in the possession of the Itzenplitz family and it was preserved at Cunersdorf Castle from ca. 1801-1929. In 1929, Marie Waleska von Arnim (née von Oppen) inherited the flute and it was sold to Miller by her husband, Dr. Achim von Arnim, through Jacques Rosenthal, Munich, 1 Mar. 1930.
  • -  The material described in this catalog record is located in the Music Division, Library of Congress.

Medium

  • 1 musical instrument.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • ML30.4a

Source Collection

  • Holding of: Dayton C. Miller flute collection, 1880-2000 (bulk 1905-1941) DCM 0916

Repository

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2022560106

Online Format

  • image

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Four full-size drawings of flutes DCM 0507, DCM 0615, DCM 0916, and DCM 1125 by Jean-François Beaudin, Québec, Canada. 2003. Please make written requests for permission for other uses to:

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The quotation regarding Dr. Miller and his gold flute comes from an article by Robert S. Shankland, "Dayton Clarence Miller: Physics Across Fifty Years." American Journal of Physics 9(October 1941):273-283. LC call number: QC1.A47. It was reprinted here with permission from the American Journal of Physics 9(October 1941):278. Copyright 1941, American Association of Physics Teachers. Should you wish to quote from this article, please contact:

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The image of the Faun playing an aulos by Rea Irvin, Miller no. 57/G, comes from the cover of The New Yorker magazine, 14 March 1925. It is reproduced here without The New Yorker masthead as required by Condé Nast Publications, New York. Permission to reproduce the Faun only as a thumbnail-size image, and without the masthead, is Courtesy of the Irvin Estate. No reproduction without permission. For reproduction permission, please contact:

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Credit line: Dayton C. Miller Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress

"Dayton C. Miller, His Life, Work and Contributions as a Scientist and Organologist" is made available here with permission from the author, William J. Maynard. HTML version of this text

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Chicago citation style:

Quantz, Johann Joachim, Creator Person Of Work, and King Of Prussia Frederick Ii. Flute in C, DCM. [Berlin, approximately ?, 1740] Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/2022560106/.

APA citation style:

Quantz, J. J. & Frederick Ii, K. O. P. (1740) Flute in C, DCM. [Berlin, approximately ?] [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2022560106/.

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Quantz, Johann Joachim, Creator Person Of Work, and King Of Prussia Frederick Ii. Flute in C, DCM. [Berlin, approximately ?, 1740] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2022560106/>.