Frederick the Great discussion post 12

[cahn]

Every time I am amazed and enchanted that this is still going on! Truly DW is the Earthly Paradise!

All the good stuff continues to be archived at rheinsberg :)

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Re: The Singer's Tale

[cahn]

Wow, this is very cool, thank you as always!! I love how she's such a musician and you can see that around the edges even when she's talking about Mara or whatever.

"He did not play like a King but very good, had a strong, full tone and much technique.") Considering how things ended with her and Fritz, she has no reason to praise his ability unduly, so I believe her assessment.

*nods* That's great.

Mara insisting that courtiers shouldn't come and go during a concert is actually a very sympathetic trait, and very believable.

Yes! And it really is kind of disheartening as a musician. So, good job in that case, Mara.

He was a beautiful, well educated man, full of talent and excellent manners.

I mean... I can believe this too. These can all coexist with all the terrible dysfunctional things we also know about him.

In the morning at 9 am, he sent me a messenger to learn how I'd slept, at 10 a billet d'amour arrived, at 11 fresh fruits or flowers, and at 12 o'clock, he came himself. Through him, I made the aquaintance of his teacher, famous contrapunctist Joh. Ph. Kirnberger, he was kind enough to teach me in generalbasso, and without effort, I learned more in an hour from him than I had in 10 hours from others.

I mean... on one hand I'm like "you know, if someone did that to me I would call him a stalker," and on the other hand I think it's totally charming how she's like "but actually the really great part was that I got a good music teacher out of it!"

Meanwhile, Lehndorff's account of the same story, as a reminder

ahahaha, thank you for this compare and contrast. LOL.

Re: The Singer's Tale

[selenak]

I love how she's such a musician and you can see that around the edges even when she's talking about Mara or whatever.

Yes, same here. It's even more noticable in the complete text, since I was of course having to cut passages.


ahahaha, thank you for this compare and contrast. LOL.

Mind you, Lehndorff to her was probably one of those jealous courtiers, and from a certain pov (tm Obi-Wan Kenobi), she's not wrong. But going by how things ended with her and Mara years later, Lehndorff's own obvious bias nothwithstanding, he had a point....