Previous posts for November 9th are here: Thomas Quasthoff; Bryn Terfel; Anna Amalia of Prussia (2019), Mary Travers (2020), Jean-Baptiste Weckerlin (2021), Bryn Terfel (2022), Bryn Terfel; Aureliano Pertile (2023), and Jean-Baptiste Weckerlin (2024)
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Anna Amalia (9 November 1723 – 30 March 1787) was Princess of Prussia and Abbess of
Quedlinburg. She was a composer and collector of music.
Noblesse oblige
Amalia also collected music, preserving over 600 volumes by Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, Georg Philipp Telemann, Carl Heinrich Graun, and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, among others. Today her library is housed in the Berlin State Library. --- adapted from Wikipedia
Anna Amelia, a princess by birth,
Bought scores by the hundreds, a legacy worth
A place in this jumble of musical wit, —
(Be it ever so humble, I'm doing my bit).
If ever the Princess encountered my verses
Her breeding would stifle inelegant curses,
Which comforts a blogger who flirted with Fate
By joshing the sister of Frederick the Great.
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