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 celebrated flautist played before Frederick at Potsdam the monarch only fetched his own flute and played a piece for the artist, who expected a more substantial reward. Voltaire says the King played "as well as the greatest artist," but Bach remarked, "You are mistaken if you think he loves the flute: all he cares for is playing himself." Two of his flutes are in the Royal Museum, Berlin; one silver, the other wood.

The king was fond of triplet passages of this kind hence Quantz always introduced them into his concertos, and Kirnberger, the musical critic, said he could recognize Quantz's compositions by the "sugar-loaves." Quantz died of apoplexy at Potsdam on