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Frederick the Great, typing "Yesman" into the console:
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Frederick the Great, typing "Yesman" into the console:
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Frederick the Great, typing "Yesman" into the console:
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Frederick the Great, typing "Yesman" into the console:
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Frederick the Great, typing "Yesman" into the console:
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Frederick the Great, typing "Yesman" into the console:
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2020172/frederick-the-great-typing-yesman-into-the-console
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Frederick the Great, typing "Yesman" into the console:
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2020172/frederick-the-great-typing-yesman-into-the-console
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Frederick the Great, typing "Yesman" into the console:
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2020172/frederick-the-great-typing-yesman-into-the-console
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Frederick the Great, typing "Yesman" into the console:
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2020172/frederick-the-great-typing-yesman-into-the-console
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Frederick the Great, typing "Yesman" into the console:
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2020172/frederick-the-great-typing-yesman-into-the-console
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Pour le Merite! And to hell with the French!
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2015797/pour-le-merite-and-to-hell-with-the-french
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Pour le Merite! And to hell with the French!
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2015797/pour-le-merite-and-to-hell-with-the-french
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Pour le Merite! And to hell with the French!
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2015797/pour-le-merite-and-to-hell-with-the-french
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"But that's not MANLY!"
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1985308/but-that-s-not-manly
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"But that's not MANLY!"
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"But that's not MANLY!"
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"But that's not MANLY!"
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1985308/but-that-s-not-manly
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Napoleon reflecting on the other great generals of history
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https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/la-mettrie/eulogy.htm
Frederick the Great's eulogy on Julien Offray de la Mettrie.
Frederick might have fallen out with Voltaire, but note his Voltairean remarks on La Mettrie's clerical critics.
I really must read "L’Homme Machine"
#FrederickTheGreat #JulienOffraydeLaMettrie #Enlightenment #Philosophy
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Frederick the Great -- Flute Concerto No. 3 in C Major: I. Allegro
https://youtu.be/pHbW7djoOU8?si=7yn2yESwh0aDamqLI enjoyed listening to this on KMFA yesterday
I confess that my interest in the piece is in part prompted by an extramusical motive, the identity of its composer. I have an interest in Frederick II, so I wonder if I would have enjoyed the piece so much if the announcer had introduced the work as a composition of a contemporary of the Prussian king, the now largely forgotten Friedrich Klein of Kotzen, musician in the von Bredlow household, and author of "Der Christliche Musiker", a work described by one musicologist as "an unenlightened conservative's amalgam of pedantry and bigotry."
Am I unable to know what my response would have been?
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A quotation from Frederick the Great
The more I see of people, the more I love my dog.
[Je mehr ich von den Menschen sehe, um so lieber habe ich meinen Hund.]Frederick II (1712-1786) King of Prussia (a.k.a. Frederick the Great)
(Attributed)Sourcing, extensive notes: wist.info/frederick-ii-the-gre…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #frederickthegreat #animals #cynicism #dogs #humannature #humanity #humans #love #misanthropy #people #objectofaffection
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Our final piece is Frederick the Great’s “Flute Sonata in E minor, SpiF 154” (https://tinyurl.com/mrxhzvxm) You can follow along with a free score available here (https://tinyurl.com/ye5uvfxn). Below is an 1852 painting by German painter Adolph Menzel depicting King Frederick the Great playing the flute at Schloss Sanssouci (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/114729660141222663)
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@SesameSquirrel That recording is from 2011. It was actually recorded as a concert DVD and Emmanuel Pahud also recorded his own album of compositions by Frederick the Great (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mXjyS2mjHgW2twB8PRuXh8-hmMFLiityU&si=vLCG55GrY62yXF6-)
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First we have Frederick the Great’s “Flute Concerto No.3 in C major, SpiF 90” (https://tinyurl.com/4y8k9wuu) which despite the title is written for Orchestral accompaniment to the a Flute soloist. Like most of his compositions, it features intricate phrases that lend themselves to showing off a flautist’s virtuosity
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King Friedrich II of Prussia AKA Frederick the Great (January 24, 1712-August 17, 1786) was a German-Prussian monarch, writer, military theorist, flutist and composer. A prolific composer when he wasn’t busy with being the king, he wrote 121 sonatas for flute, 4 flute concertos, a symphony and various arias over the years. Unfortunately, due to the Time™️ and the culture of Western European nobility, he lived his life as a closeted Queer man.
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Inside the Neues Palais 💫
#Potsdam #NeuesPalais #Prussian #Palace #Berlin #newpalace #baroque #architecture #frederickthegreat -
The Neues Palais was built by King Friedrich II (Frederick the Great) between 1763 and 1769. It is considered to be the last great Prussian Baroque palace. #Potsdam #NeuesPalais #Prussian #Palace #Berlin #baroque #architecture #frederickthegreat