Frederick the Great, discussion post 5: or: Yuletide requests are out!

[cahn]

All Yuletide requests are out!

Yuletide related:
-it is sad that I can't watch opera quickly enough these days to have offered any of them, these requests are delightful!

-That is... sure a lot of prompts for MCS/Jingyan. But happily some that are not :D (I like MCS/Jingyan! But there are So Many Other characters!)

Frederician-specific:
-I am so excited someone requested Fritz/Voltaire, please someone write it!!

-I also really want someone to write that request for Poniatowski, although that is... definitely a niche request, even for this niche fandom. But he has memoirs?? apparently they are translated from Polish into French

-But while we are waiting/writing/etc., check out this crack commentfic where Heinrich and Franz Stefan are drinking together while Maria Theresia and Frederick the Great have their secret summit, which turns into a plot to marry the future Emperor Joseph to Fritz...

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Re: Sibling Correspondance

[selenak]

So is the UNESCO, as it's declared a World Cultural Heritage. Have a look here! (A vid made apropos the finished restoration in 2018).

Bayreuth went from being a sleepy provincial town to, well, still a sleepy town but with some magnificent architecture and gardening, as well as a first class musical ensemble during Wilhelmine's life time and then, a century later, becoming a world musical centre again because Wagner originally had fallen in love with Wilhelmine's opera house before realising he still needed his own building to stage the Ring in. All of which is due to Wilhelmine, which is why current day Bayreuth loves her. It's still understandable 18th century Bayreuth had problems, though!

(Tellingly, when the town residence burned rumor claimed the Margrave burned it down himself because he and his wife wanted to build yet more new mansions. This was rubbish, not least because the Margrave wasn't suicidal or murder-inclined, and the wretched building had burned with him and Wilhelmine inside it. But it says something about how the population saw them.)

Re: Sibling Correspondance

[mildred_of_midgard]

which is why current day Bayreuth loves her. It's still understandable 18th century Bayreuth had problems, though!

*nod* A lot of history is like this. Algarotti had the reverse problem! Everyone who met him loved him, but he didn't do enough for his birthplace to make future residents happy with him.

The opera house is lovely. Thank you for the video.

But it says something about how the population saw them.

Yeah, yikes. On another sweet sibling note, Fritz at least came through with replacement books, music, clothes, etc. for them.

Wilhelmine: Dear brother, you know how it goes when you're super depressed and you don't even have flute music to take your mind off your miseries? That's my husband right now. Could you maybe send a flute and some Quantz concertos to cheer him up? It would do him a world of good.

Fritz: Yes, yes, absolutely, they're on their way now. Anything for my sister. Please make a list of what else you lost, both of you, so I can make good on your losses. The important thing is that you didn't die. As long as you're alive, we can fix the rest. PLEASE DON'T DIE. NEVER DIE. (5 years before she died, about a year and a half before she and her husband left for Italy hoping to improve her health.)

Re: Sibling Correspondance

[cahn]

That looks gorgeous. One day I'll make the pilgrimage :D

Awwww, yeah, they must really have disliked them :(

Re: Sibling Correspondance

[mildred_of_midgard]

I just got to the part in her memoirs (written several years before the fire) where she's talking about how awesome her husband is, and concludes, "All his subjects, by whom he is adored, are ready to confirm all I have written on this subject."

That must have been one brutal wake-up call. :/