(okay, finally able to respond to comments -- I just had to respond to the crackfic yesterday, though!)
Well, guess whom Fritz hired to make up for the lack of a heroic female soprano in Berlin once that season was over?
LOL oh Fritz :D
This is all really cool! I could totally imagine that for musicians who could deal with Fritz' personality and/or who cared about music enough that his personality was of secondary importance (and weren't chomping at the bit to play/sing Gluck), his court could be a really awesome place to be a musician. I had a conductor a little like that in college -- not Fritzian, but with some personality issues that made it difficult for a lot of people -- but the quality of the music that happened with him was so great that he had almost a cult-like following. You either hated working with him and dropped out as soon as possible, or would sign on to sing with him no matter what he was doing. (Hmm, he also generally preferred older music -- we sang a lot of Renaissance, not much 20thC.)
The opera took really long, though.
AHAHAHA Countess, you are a woman after my own heart :D
I promise you with the word of a King and the promise of a gentleman that even in the case of a war breaking out between England and the House of Bourbon, I shall faithfully keep the peace so happily arranged now between us
I love the over-the-topness of this letter, thank you for translating :D And awwww, that's touching! Or, well, might be if he hadn't cheerfully broken all kinds of things with respect to Silesia.
Re: Death is also here but much more life
Well, guess whom Fritz hired to make up for the lack of a heroic female soprano in Berlin once that season was over?
LOL oh Fritz :D
This is all really cool! I could totally imagine that for musicians who could deal with Fritz' personality and/or who cared about music enough that his personality was of secondary importance (and weren't chomping at the bit to play/sing Gluck), his court could be a really awesome place to be a musician. I had a conductor a little like that in college -- not Fritzian, but with some personality issues that made it difficult for a lot of people -- but the quality of the music that happened with him was so great that he had almost a cult-like following. You either hated working with him and dropped out as soon as possible, or would sign on to sing with him no matter what he was doing. (Hmm, he also generally preferred older music -- we sang a lot of Renaissance, not much 20thC.)
The opera took really long, though.
AHAHAHA Countess, you are a woman after my own heart :D
I promise you with the word of a King and the promise of a gentleman that even in the case of a war breaking out between England and the House of Bourbon, I shall faithfully keep the peace so happily arranged now between us
I love the over-the-topness of this letter, thank you for translating :D And awwww, that's touching! Or, well, might be if he hadn't cheerfully broken all kinds of things with respect to Silesia.