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Anna Amalia

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Anna Amalia (1723–1787)

Sister of Frederick the Great, and an amateur musician. With her Kapellmeister Kirnberger she was a champion of the works of Bach and Handel in Berlin, and collected a valuable library of early music. She was also a composer and wrote Der Tod Jesu.



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Based on the German, hand-colored copy in the Herxogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek in Weimar, the Taschen reprint of the Nuremberg Chronicle, in its original size, is a magnificent book.
 
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