Huh, apparently Schiller did a take on Damon & Pythias. Is there an opera? Does it have Keenlyside?
It's "Die Bürgschaft", one of those long ballads you have to learn by heart. Or had to, I'm not sure it's still done in current day schools. (I'm turning 50 this month, mes amis.) I don't have a sung version from you, but I do have legendary actor Oskar Werner (known in the English speaking world probablyl mostly for his roles in "The spy who came in from the cold", "Ship of Fools" and "Fahrenheit 451") reciting it, which you should listen to, because half the appeal of Schiller (and one reason why I'm not keen on the Gutenberg translation of Don Carlos Cahn read) is the sound, as he wrote such beautiful German. "Word arias" is the term often used. And Werner was a superb "singer" of Schillerian poetry. Listen to it here.
Franz Schubert also composed an actual, musical score to this ballad, and cahn, here is Jonas Kaufmann singing this tale of male friendship versus tyranny with a passion.
ETA: Keep forgetting to ask this - re: therapist for Fritz, I've seen at least two German movies where Bach gets that role. As in: he's the good dad in an era of bad dads (with FW obviously the worst), his son worked for Fritz, and they did historically meet. Said meeting is then lengthened to an impromptu therapy session after Fritz sends all the courtiers away. Now, Bach with 20-something children did have practice as a (good) father figure, but as to whether he'd been ready to deal with Fritz' issues?
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It's "Die Bürgschaft", one of those long ballads you have to learn by heart. Or had to, I'm not sure it's still done in current day schools. (I'm turning 50 this month, mes amis.) I don't have a sung version from you, but I do have legendary actor Oskar Werner (known in the English speaking world probablyl mostly for his roles in "The spy who came in from the cold", "Ship of Fools" and "Fahrenheit 451") reciting it, which you should listen to, because half the appeal of Schiller (and one reason why I'm not keen on the Gutenberg translation of Don Carlos Cahn read) is the sound, as he wrote such beautiful German. "Word arias" is the term often used. And Werner was a superb "singer" of Schillerian poetry. Listen to it here.
Franz Schubert also composed an actual, musical score to this ballad, and
ETA: Keep forgetting to ask this - re: therapist for Fritz, I've seen at least two German movies where Bach gets that role. As in: he's the good dad in an era of bad dads (with FW obviously the worst), his son worked for Fritz, and they did historically meet. Said meeting is then lengthened to an impromptu therapy session after Fritz sends all the courtiers away. Now, Bach with 20-something children did have practice as a (good) father figure, but as to whether he'd been ready to deal with Fritz' issues?