Oh, and I have something operatic for you. Like her brother, Wilhelmine also composed. In her opera Argenore, there is a significant difference between the print Version and the autograph version written in Wilhelmine's hand of the aria which Ormondo, unjustly condemned to execution, sings. This opera was first produced by her (in Bayreuth, the principality she'd married into) in 1740, i.e. exactly ten years after Katte's death, and here's what Ormondo sings in her handwritten Version: "I will fall, but you/cruel tyrant/will at the end repent too late/and you will say that my life/is admired instead of a pitied/ A test to the strong soul/calm and steadfast/enduring unfair punishment/for a guilt of which one is innocent." In the recitative before the aria, Ormondo sings: "That I don't want to die now isn't because of cowardice, but because I hope to see the ending of a despotic, cruel and thankless King".

(The printed Version of Argenore has the aria in question with a completely different text: "I fall, but I am like the high and proud oak, moving all the earth around it when it falls" etc.)

The aria in Question.