Frederick the Great

Published: Oct. 15, 2019, 5 a.m.

b'Enlightenment monarch! Composer of hundreds of flute concertos. Emerged from the \\u201csandbox of the Holy Roman Empire"\\xa0to conquer vast swaths of Europe! Built a giant pink palace his wife wasn\'t allowed to visit. Worst dad in\\xa0Bad Gays history? "Everything that speaks to eyes and touches hearts,\\xa0Was found in the fond object that enflamed his parts."\\xa0\\n----more----\\nSOURCES:\\nBlanning, Tim.\\xa0Frederick the Great: King of Prussia. New York: Random House, 2016.\\nGaines, James.\\xa0Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment. New York: Harper Collins, 2010.\\nHadley, Kathryn (with Vanessa de Senarclens).\\xa0"Frederick the Great\'s Erotic Poem."\\xa0HistoryToday, 21 September, 2011.\\xa0https://www.historytoday.com/frederick-greats-erotic-poem\\n\\nThe brief excerpt of Frederick the Great\'s Flute Concerto in C Major, No. 3, is performed by Emmanuel Pahud and the Kammerakademie Potsdam, led by Trevor Pinnock at the Harpsichord; we claim "fair use" for quotation and illustration purposes and encourage listeners who appreciate the extraordinary performance to purchase or legally stream it in full.\\xa0Our intro music is\\xa0Arpeggia Colorix\\xa0by Yann Terrien, downloaded from WFMU\'s Free Music Archive and distributed under a Creative Commons\\xa0Attribution-ShareAlike License. Our outro music is by DJ\\xa0Michaeloswell Graphicsdesigner.'