Tears in his eyes: that's from Manger, though I'm not sure Manger says "Dresden"; in any event, Fritz wasn't there, he was in Breslau. With Amalie visiting. Which I happen to know.
I know you know! But what I don't know is whether Fritz made a quick trip to Dresden while in winter quarters even if he was staying in Silesia. (Which he was doing because he had just taken Breslau after Leuthen, something I have reason to know about myself. ;) Breslau, which I remind you, had to be retaken because it just been surrendered by letter-forwarding, soon-to-be-cashiered cousin Katte.)
Speaking of cashiering, it in no way excuses Fritz's behavior toward AW, nor does it negate the psychological aspects of militarily crushing Dad's favorite son, the one he thought had so much military promise, but the more I read, the more I see the English cutting off the heads of admirals and generals who didn't engage with the enemy when the government thought they should have. I know Voltaire had satirized this in Candide (inventing the phrase "pour encourager les autres"), but I've now seen two English generals lose their heads in the War of the Spanish Succession too, fifty years earlier. Now, if Voltaire could see that this is outrageous, I'm not excusing Fritz, but when he said, "I would be justified in having your head cut off," there is contemporary military precedent. (The fraternal aspect and their joint FW history is what makes it so special.)
(He even mentions a von Pirch as his favourite student, but it can't have been Carel since Manger says his von Pirch later went into French service, and Carel died.
Also because Fredersdorf outlived Carel by a few months, if Carel died in 1757. But he had brothers, so who knows.
We have the 1740 dcoument (with all of Fritz' shiny new titles, remember)
I remember!
Can you imagine what FW would have said if Fritz had given Fredersdorf something like Zernikow in his life time? *head explodes*
No. What I also can't imagine is 1730s Fritz being stupid enough to do it. :P
"But Dad! He's so frugal! He's making it thrive! There's mulberry trees and everything. And he's tall and played the oboe in the military! Wouldn't you give him an estate??" :'D
Good on you for not believing them, Manger, what with Le Roi Soleil being dead since decades and Fredersdorf not into necromancy...
Lol! Um, any chance of a typo? I could see rumors that he met Louis XV, and people speculating about the political import of that meeting.
Well that was in Fahlenkamp as well.
Argh, when will my copy come so I can read it myself and remember what's in it? :P
Again, I say, he so lucked out FW didn't recruit him as his personal oboist!
Exactly the context in which I was reporting this!
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Re: Music diss
Date: 2021-03-19 08:15 pm (UTC)I know you know! But what I don't know is whether Fritz made a quick trip to Dresden while in winter quarters even if he was staying in Silesia. (Which he was doing because he had just taken Breslau after Leuthen, something I have reason to know about myself. ;) Breslau, which I remind you, had to be retaken because it just been surrendered by letter-forwarding, soon-to-be-cashiered cousin Katte.)
Speaking of cashiering, it in no way excuses Fritz's behavior toward AW, nor does it negate the psychological aspects of militarily crushing Dad's favorite son, the one he thought had so much military promise, but the more I read, the more I see the English cutting off the heads of admirals and generals who didn't engage with the enemy when the government thought they should have. I know Voltaire had satirized this in Candide (inventing the phrase "pour encourager les autres"), but I've now seen two English generals lose their heads in the War of the Spanish Succession too, fifty years earlier. Now, if Voltaire could see that this is outrageous, I'm not excusing Fritz, but when he said, "I would be justified in having your head cut off," there is contemporary military precedent. (The fraternal aspect and their joint FW history is what makes it so special.)
(He even mentions a von Pirch as his favourite student, but it can't have been Carel since Manger says his von Pirch later went into French service, and Carel died.
Also because Fredersdorf outlived Carel by a few months, if Carel died in 1757. But he had brothers, so who knows.
We have the 1740 dcoument (with all of Fritz' shiny new titles, remember)
I remember!
Can you imagine what FW would have said if Fritz had given Fredersdorf something like Zernikow in his life time? *head explodes*
No. What I also can't imagine is 1730s Fritz being stupid enough to do it. :P
"But Dad! He's so frugal! He's making it thrive! There's mulberry trees and everything. And he's tall and played the oboe in the military! Wouldn't you give him an estate??" :'D
Good on you for not believing them, Manger, what with Le Roi Soleil being dead since decades and Fredersdorf not into necromancy...
Lol! Um, any chance of a typo? I could see rumors that he met Louis XV, and people speculating about the political import of that meeting.
Well that was in Fahlenkamp as well.
Argh, when will my copy come so I can read it myself and remember what's in it? :P
Again, I say, he so lucked out FW didn't recruit him as his personal oboist!
Exactly the context in which I was reporting this!