Jonathan Emmesedi<p>Frederick the Great -- Flute Concerto No. 3 in C Major: I. Allegro<br><a href="https://youtu.be/pHbW7djoOU8?si=7yn2yESwh0aDamqL" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/pHbW7djoOU8?si=7yn2yE</span><span class="invisible">Swh0aDamqL</span></a></p><p>I enjoyed listening to this on KMFA yesterday</p><p>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." </p><p>Am I unable to know what my response would have been? </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/ClassicalMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClassicalMusic</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/FluteConcerto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FluteConcerto</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/FrederickTheGreat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FrederickTheGreat</span></a></p>