I actually very much appreciate these notes on the German, because now I know enough to distinguish Mensch from Mann (I don't imagine I get the nuances, but at least I know enough to know there is a nuance) and I can at least see the passive construction. But I would never have gotten this on my own of course!
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.
Oh wow, that's really interesting actually. I wonder how Quantz felt about that. (Does Nicolai say?)
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.
Ha, yeah. I'm imagining ghost!Fritz (maybe mildred's reincarnated Fritz?) visiting the present day and being extremely indignant that it's those young whippersnappers who are remembered... Like so much, you bring it on yourself, Fritz!
Re: Nicolai Vol. 6
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.
Oh wow, that's really interesting actually. I wonder how Quantz felt about that. (Does Nicolai say?)
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.
Ha, yeah. I'm imagining ghost!Fritz (maybe mildred's reincarnated Fritz?) visiting the present day and being extremely indignant that it's those young whippersnappers who are remembered... Like so much, you bring it on yourself, Fritz!