Napoleon reflecting on the other great generals of history

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1739814/napoleon-reflecting-on-the-other-great-generals-of-history

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"

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Frederick the Great -- Flute Concerto No. 3 in C Major: I. Allegro
https://youtu.be/pHbW7djoOU8?si=7yn2yESwh0aDamqL

I 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

Frederick II (1712-1786) King of Prussia (a.k.a. Frederick the Great)
(Attributed)

Sourcing, extensive notes: wist.info/frederick-ii-the-gre…

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