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.
Yes, he's on my list too, especially for fiction (headcanons are the best canons!). Because no, no music that I recall, and I think I would have picked up on it, since it would have contradicted my headcanon.
And of course, Heinrich was passionate about music but as a player never more than okay.
Yeah, but that first part kind of negates it.
I'm not dignifying FW with a response. :P (Since I know it was meant tongue-in-cheek. *g*)
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.
Hmm. That is a good thought! But you're right, and there's no evidence (yet) that he left in a hurry as opposed to as planned, so I'm tentatively going with them being for his own use. Though the fact that he didn't take them (or maybe he took his favorite, who knows) would support my headcanon that he was trying them out but *wasn't* passionate. I bet Katte was planning to take his.
Re: Manger, Knobelsdorff - and Peter Keith!
Yes, he's on my list too, especially for fiction (headcanons are the best canons!). Because no, no music that I recall, and I think I would have picked up on it, since it would have contradicted my headcanon.
And of course, Heinrich was passionate about music but as a player never more than okay.
Yeah, but that first part kind of negates it.
I'm not dignifying FW with a response. :P (Since I know it was meant tongue-in-cheek. *g*)
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.
Hmm. That is a good thought! But you're right, and there's no evidence (yet) that he left in a hurry as opposed to as planned, so I'm tentatively going with them being for his own use. Though the fact that he didn't take them (or maybe he took his favorite, who knows) would support my headcanon that he was trying them out but *wasn't* passionate. I bet Katte was planning to take his.