Wow, this is amazing. Actual soap opera about opera! :D (Or at least, so Hervey says. Do you know if this is backed up by any other sources? When it's Hervey, I feel like I gotta ask.)
I like Handel a lot (though not enough to get in battles over him, lol) so I am a little more on the Princess' side, I suppose, but. Man, Hervey definitely has a way with words, anyway.
There was indeed a mighty opera war going, and Fritz of Wales was supporting the other side (which had hired Farinelli - if you've ever seen the movie Farinelli, they include something of that competition during his guest starring in London) but what Hervey doesn't mention is that Fritz of Wales was a passionate violincellist and that his father disapproved, which had been the first of many musical family differences long before it was Handel vs Nobility Opera (where Fritz of Wales also sometimes played far away from his disapproving family.
Of course Hervey doesn't mention that, that might have shown Fritz of Wales in a better light and we can't have that *facepalm*
But it sounds like his father liked music (that is to say, it wasn't a FW-like disapproval of high-falutin' music in general)? Then was it just the cello he didn't like? Stringed instruments?
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I like Handel a lot (though not enough to get in battles over him, lol) so I am a little more on the Princess' side, I suppose, but. Man, Hervey definitely has a way with words, anyway.
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Re: Hervey's Memoirs: The Phantom of the Opera
But it sounds like his father liked music (that is to say, it wasn't a FW-like disapproval of high-falutin' music in general)? Then was it just the cello he didn't like? Stringed instruments?