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In the vifit which lie made to Scarlatti, M. QuSntz fays, 

 that he had an opportunity of hearing him play on tiie harp, 

 lichord, which he did in a very learned manner ; but oblerves, 

 that his abilities on that inftrument were not equal to thofe 

 of liis fon. 



Before his departure from Naples, M. Quantz frequently 

 heard concerts at the dijke of Lichtenllein's, in which 

 Hade, Farinelli, Tefi, and Francifchello, were employed. 



In 1726 he was at Venice, during the performance of 

 two rival operas, " Siface," compofed by Porpora, and 

 " Siroe," by Vinci ; the latter was moll applauded. The Cav. 

 Nicolini, a contralto. La Romanina, a deep foprano, and 

 the famous tenor, I'aita, were the principal fingers in thefe 

 dramas. 



San Martini, the celebrated performer on the hautbois, 

 who afterwards eilabliflicd hinilelf in London, was now at 

 Venice, as was Vivaldi. 



At Turin he met with Somis, under whom, Le Claire 

 was at that time a fcholar on the violin. 



From Turin he went to Paris, wliich, with refpeft to mufic, 

 was going from one extreme to another. 



His charafter of French linging 111 tlie former part of the 

 laft century, is very juft and charatleriltic. 



" I was difpleafed with the French tafte now," fays 

 M. Quantz, " though I had heard it formerly with patience. 

 The old, worn-out, fecond-liand thoughts, and palTages ill- 

 exprelfcd, difgulled me now, as much as a Itale difh warmed 

 again. The relemblance between recitative and air, with 

 the affefted and unnatural howling ot the lingers, particu- 

 larly the women, ihocked my cars." 



M. Quantz was the iirlt who applied an additional key 

 to the German flute, in order to ciirivft its imperfections ; 

 and it was in the courfe of this year, 1726, that he made 

 the difcovery. 



In 1727 he arrived in LondoH, where he found the opera 

 in a very flonrifhing ilate, under the direftion of Handel. 

 The drama of " Admetus" was now in run, of which, he 

 fays, the mufic was grand and pompous. Senefino performed 

 the firll male part, and Cuzzoni and Fauttina were the prin- 

 cipal women. 



He then gives a charafter of the fingers, Hate of the opera, 

 and of mufic in general in London, very con-eftly. 



Upon his return to Drelden, he was ellablilhed in the 

 king's chapel, with an addition to his former falary of 250 

 dollars a-year. He now entirely quitted the hautbois, fup- 

 pofing it hurtful to the embouchure of the flute, which, 

 from this time, he made his iole ftudy. 



In 172S he went to Berlin, with Ijaron Seyfertiz, in the 

 fuite of the king of Poland ; where he was obliged, at the 

 command of the queen of Pruffia, but with the permiffion 

 of his royal malter, to remain for fome months. Pifendel, 

 Weifs, and Buff^ardin, were, by the fame order, called thither. 

 After he had had the honour of playing before the queen 

 two or three times, he was offered a place and peiifion of 

 800 dollars a-year. He was very willing to accept of them, 

 but the king his mafter would not grant his confent : how- 

 ever, this prince gave him a general permiffion to go to 

 Berlin as often as he was defired. 



This year, 1728, the prince royal of Pruffia delfermined 

 to learn the German flute, and M. Quantz had the honour 

 to teach him. Ou this account, he was obliged to go twice 

 a year to Berlin, Ruppin, or Reinlberg, the feveral refi- 

 ■dences of his royal fcholar. 



After the death of the king of Poland, in 1733, '"^ ^'-'"' 

 Auguftus III. not choofing to difmifs M. Quantz, raifed 

 his appoiutraent to 800 dollars, and confirmed the permiffion 



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which had been granted by his royal father, for his going 

 occafionally to Berlin. 



In 1734 he publilhed his firll folos ; but he docs not ac- 

 knowledge the fonatas, which were printed under his name, 

 in Holland, about that time. 



Ill 1739, M. Quantz finding a great fcarcity of German 

 flutes, undertook to bore them himfelf for the ufe of his 

 pupils ; an enterprife which, afterwards, he found to be 

 very lucrative. 



In 1741 he was again invited to Berlin, in order to enter 

 into the fcrvice of his royal fcholar, then king of Pruffia, 

 with ofiers of an annual peiifion of 2000 dollars for life ; a 

 feparate payment for compofitions ; 100 ducats for every 

 flute he fhould deliver ; and an exemption from playing in 

 the orchellra, or any where elfe, but m the king's chamber, 

 as well as from dependance on any other commands than 

 thofe of his majefty ; which terms, as the king of Poland 

 was too gracious longer to refufe his difmiffion, M. Quantz 

 was unable to refill. 



In 1752 he pubhfhed his "Art of Playing the German 

 Flute ;" and it was this year that he invented tlie new joint 

 for the upper-piece of the flute, by which means, without 

 drawing out the middle piece, and without hurting the tone, 

 the inftrument may be raifed or lowered half a note. 



And now, having traced our induftrious mufician through 

 the troublefome mazes by which he arrived at the temple of 

 fortune, we had hopes that we fliould have left him to the 

 enjoyment of that reputable eafe, that olium cum dignitate, 

 to vi'hich every artift in years afpires ; but alas ! this emi- 

 nent mufician and worthy man died at Potzdam in lefs than 

 a year after we had feen, heard, and converfed with him in 

 that fummer refidence of his royal difciple and patron ! A 

 complete lift of his works is given in Gerber. 



QUANUSE, in Geography, a town of America, in the 

 Tenneffce government. N. lat. 35° 12'. W. long. 84° 28'. 



QUAPA, a town of Louifiana, at the conflux of the 

 Akanfas with the Miffifippi. N. lat. 33° 48'. W. long. 

 91° 23'. 



QUAPACTOTOTL, in Ornithology, a name under 

 which Nieremberg has defcribed a bird, which, he fays, imi- 

 tates the human laugh. He fays its body is eight inches 

 long, and the tail as many ; the beak of a blueifli-black, 

 and bent and crooked ; the breaft grey, and the belly black ; 

 the tail of a brownifh-black ; and the wings, neck, and head, 

 of a yellowifh-brown. 



This is the Cuculus ridibundus of Gmelin, the Cuculus 

 Mexicanus of Brilibn, and the Laugliing cuckow of Latham. 

 It is found in New Spain. 



QUAPIZOTL, in Zoology, the name given by Her- 

 nandez to the Taja(;u of Marcgrave, the Pecari of Buffon, 

 and the Mexican hog of Pennant. See Sus Tajnjii. 



QUAPOYA, in Botany, Aubl. Guian. v. 2. 897. 

 t. 343, 344, a barbarous Caribbean name. See Xanthe. 



QUAR, in Agriculture, a term occafionally employed, 

 in a provincial manner, to fignify a fmall fort of quarry of 

 any kind, but more efpecially of the lime-ilone, free-ftone, 

 flag-ftone, or flate-ilone nature. It is much ufcd in fome 

 of the more northern diftrifls of the country. See 

 QuAKuy. 



QUARANTAIN, in old Law Books, written Quaren- 

 tini-, and Quarentena, denotes the fpace of forty days. 



" Quatuor carucatas terrse arabilis, continentes in longi- 

 tudiiie 8 quarentenas, & 8 quareutenas in latitudme." 

 Chart. Witiilafii Reg. Merc, apud Ingulf. 



" Quarentena in London, ponetur pro refpeftu habend. 

 40 dies pofl fummouitionem per breve regis, ut confidant, 

 &c. fi fibi viderint expedire." MS. de Temp. Ed. III. 



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