What Mildred said re: hastily made mistake which I then when translating every word recognized as such.
Quantz' direct quote is lovely, particularly the German phrasing.
Isn't it just? Sadly I can't get across the flavour of Mensch in English, since it's man just as if he'd said Mann. Human being sounds clumsily. And "Mensch" in Yiddish means something slightly different. And the passive construction of "mir nötig" also can't be repeated in English.
Nicolai, btw, is a big Quantz admirer, regrets that his work hardly gets played anymore at the time of writing (because musical taste moves on) and defends him against the accusation of his flute pieces being repetitive by saying that many of these were composed explicitly for Fritz who hated completely new stuff, so there had to be something familiar in each one.
See, Fritz, that's why MT and later Joseph get Gluck and later Mozart respectively, aka the musical innovators of the age. His taste in everything really was frozen somewhere in the 1730s.
Re: Nicolai Vol. 6
Quantz' direct quote is lovely, particularly the German phrasing.
Isn't it just? Sadly I can't get across the flavour of Mensch in English, since it's man just as if he'd said Mann. Human being sounds clumsily. And "Mensch" in Yiddish means something slightly different. And the passive construction of "mir nötig" also can't be repeated in English.
Nicolai, btw, is a big Quantz admirer, regrets that his work hardly gets played anymore at the time of writing (because musical taste moves on) and defends him against the accusation of his flute pieces being repetitive by saying that many of these were composed explicitly for Fritz who hated completely new stuff, so there had to be something familiar in each one.
See, Fritz, that's why MT and later Joseph get Gluck and later Mozart respectively, aka the musical innovators of the age. His taste in everything really was frozen somewhere in the 1730s.