Pity lots of little historical details are off, but we'll forgive her.
"it is every unlikely that either Frederick himself or Fredersdorf were trained in playing the oboe".
*hiccup* Though I'm sure that's what they told FW!
LOL, agreed. Also, I dimly seem to recall Fritz didn't even own Zernikow until 1737 - he bought it then, it wasn't crown property but privately owned by a Colonel something or the other.
Good memory!
The Zernikow website provides the history of the estate before and after. It was chronically mismanaged and in debt through F1 and FW's reigns, and often changed its owner accordingly. Fritz bought it as Crown Prince in 1737 from the previous owner, a Lieutenant de Beville (who himself had bought it in 1731), and at first rented it to six citizens in the area. In 1740, when he ascended to the throne, he ended the contracts and gave it to Fredersdorf, who despite all his work for Fritz found time to completely reorganize the estate.
ETA:
Considering she keeps quoting from Thomas Carlyle and he's bound to have included that factoid in his many volumed biography, you'd think she knew that Fritz didn't have hunting companions. ;)
Or drinking companions. (Watered-down champagne doesn't count.) But let's be real: who reads the many volumed Carlyle biography in toto? Because I haven't, and as far as I know, you haven't. :P felis? Cover-to-cover?
But you should know that for other reasons, if your dissertation is on Fritz.
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Re: Music diss
Date: 2021-03-20 04:31 pm (UTC)"it is every unlikely that either Frederick himself or Fredersdorf were trained in playing the oboe".
*hiccup* Though I'm sure that's what they told FW!
LOL, agreed. Also, I dimly seem to recall Fritz didn't even own Zernikow until 1737 - he bought it then, it wasn't crown property but privately owned by a Colonel something or the other.
Good memory!
The Zernikow website provides the history of the estate before and after. It was chronically mismanaged and in debt through F1 and FW's reigns, and often changed its owner accordingly. Fritz bought it as Crown Prince in 1737 from the previous owner, a Lieutenant de Beville (who himself had bought it in 1731), and at first rented it to six citizens in the area. In 1740, when he ascended to the throne, he ended the contracts and gave it to Fredersdorf, who despite all his work for Fritz found time to completely reorganize the estate.
ETA:
Considering she keeps quoting from Thomas Carlyle and he's bound to have included that factoid in his many volumed biography, you'd think she knew that Fritz didn't have hunting companions. ;)
Or drinking companions. (Watered-down champagne doesn't count.) But let's be real: who reads the many volumed Carlyle biography in toto? Because I haven't, and as far as I know, you haven't. :P
But you should know that for other reasons, if your dissertation is on Fritz.