Well, FW isn't passionate about music (when not Händel as played by a tall oboist). *g*
Also, what about your guy Suhm? Now you've read the letters and I haven't, so: does he ever bring up musicians he recs to Fritz, or scores, or anything like that? Because I don't recall him being mentioned as a musical patron anywhere, including Exner's dissertation.
And of course, Heinrich was passionate about music but as a player never more than okay.
Lehndorff occasionally mentions a good musician he notices, and not just the celebrities - for example, he actually names Mara as a teen in AW's employ just before the war - but plays no instrument himself, and he never talks about music with the fondness he has for reading and books, so I think while grown of age in a court dominated by a very musical royal family, he absorbed enough to like the occasional concert, but he really is more into literture and non-musical theatre, and he's never been motivated to play himself.
Oh, and I don't think EC was musical (though trying her best in the 1730s with taking lessons in anything Fritz liked). She painted a bit throughout her life, but she never was any musician's patron that I recall, and Lehndorff never mentions her playing.
ETA: re: Peter and the flutes - did you consider they might not have been for himself but for Fritz? After all, Fritz might not have been able to take a flute or several with him when travelling with Dad and strictly supervised. In that case, though, Peter leaving them behind would argue he left in a hurry.
Re: Manger, Knobelsdorff - and Peter Keith!
Also, what about your guy Suhm? Now you've read the letters and I haven't, so: does he ever bring up musicians he recs to Fritz, or scores, or anything like that? Because I don't recall him being mentioned as a musical patron anywhere, including Exner's dissertation.
And of course, Heinrich was passionate about music but as a player never more than okay.
Lehndorff occasionally mentions a good musician he notices, and not just the celebrities - for example, he actually names Mara as a teen in AW's employ just before the war - but plays no instrument himself, and he never talks about music with the fondness he has for reading and books, so I think while grown of age in a court dominated by a very musical royal family, he absorbed enough to like the occasional concert, but he really is more into literture and non-musical theatre, and he's never been motivated to play himself.
Oh, and I don't think EC was musical (though trying her best in the 1730s with taking lessons in anything Fritz liked). She painted a bit throughout her life, but she never was any musician's patron that I recall, and Lehndorff never mentions her playing.
ETA: re: Peter and the flutes - did you consider they might not have been for himself but for Fritz? After all, Fritz might not have been able to take a flute or several with him when travelling with Dad and strictly supervised. In that case, though, Peter leaving them behind would argue he left in a hurry.