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I know! Just in the last few days, I've learned that Goethe was BFFs with Zelter, who was a bricklayer who helped renovate Nicolai's house, which was the same house that Peter Keith lived in with Frau von Knyphausen, who (with her husband) had bought it from his predecessor Herr von Blaspiel, who (along with his wife) was banished as a result of the Clement affair that we just learned about (but had been described in Wilhelmine's memoirs), and that, going a little further back in time, this Knyphausen of whom we've heard on several occasions before was painted by Pesne, and that led to F1 inviting Pesne to Berlin, with so many results that we've seen. And that's not counting the Knyphausen connections you mention!

This is what Horowski's so good at and so frustrated that many other historians aren't.