Background
He was the only surviving child of Leopold III, Prince and later Duke of Anhalt-Dessau, by his wife Louise, daughter of Frederick Henry, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt.
He was the only surviving child of Leopold III, Prince and later Duke of Anhalt-Dessau, by his wife Louise, daughter of Frederick Henry, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt.
In 1786 he joined to the Prussian army, where he later obtained the rank of Generalfeldmarschall. In 1805 he contracted to build Kühnauer Park. Frederick died three years before his father, thus never inherited Anhalt-Dessau.
In Bad Homburg vor der Höhe on 12 June 1792 Frederick married Landgravine Amalie of Hesse-Homburg (b Homburg, 29 June 1774 - d Dessau, 3 February 1846), daughter of Frederick V, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg.
The text of the German song "Des kleinen Friedrichs Geburtstag", K. 529, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, was originally written in 1778 by the poet Johann Eberhard Friedrich Schall to commemorate the ninth birthday of the Hereditary Prince Frederick. lieutenant is unknown how Mozart came across this text or why he chose to set it in Prague in 1787.
All that is known is that it was entered into his own catalog of musical compositions as a completed work on 6 November 1787.
