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cahnAnd including Emperor Joseph II!
from Derek Beales: Joseph II, Volume 2: Against the World, 1780 - 1790:
Joseph's alleged comment to Mozart about the Entführung, "Too many notes", has been taken as evidence of his ignorance. But he probably said something like, "Too beautiful for our ears, and monstrous many notes." It is always necessary to bear in mind, when appraising the emperor's remarks, his peculiar brand of humor or sarcasm. He was usually getting at someone. And he did not use the royal "we". The ears in question were those of the Viennese audience, whom he was mocking for their limited appreciation of Mozart's elaborate music.
(though not gonna lie, I think it is a LOT of notes)
from Derek Beales: Joseph II, Volume 2: Against the World, 1780 - 1790:
Joseph's alleged comment to Mozart about the Entführung, "Too many notes", has been taken as evidence of his ignorance. But he probably said something like, "Too beautiful for our ears, and monstrous many notes." It is always necessary to bear in mind, when appraising the emperor's remarks, his peculiar brand of humor or sarcasm. He was usually getting at someone. And he did not use the royal "we". The ears in question were those of the Viennese audience, whom he was mocking for their limited appreciation of Mozart's elaborate music.
(though not gonna lie, I think it is a LOT of notes)
Re: A Fritz podcast episode with some hilarious claims
Date: 2022-01-27 03:43 pm (UTC)And kudos to the podcast for knowing this, since we didn't at the beginning of salon, but--because she was empress regent?! And because he was attracted to this?! Even if you don't know his motivations, you can check her dates, as
As for the pink palace, yeah, I got nothing. Well, I guess someone somewhere saw a photo of the Neues Palais and thought it was the main building?
To be fair, Fritz himself had his books stamped "S" for "Sanssouci" at the Neues Palais, but it's still not a "giant pink palace his wife wasn't allowed to visit"!
And even if it *was* pink, pink, pink...pink coding as feminine/gay was a 20th century development! It wouldn't mean what I take the podcast to be implying it means! Wrong on so many levels.
I mean, at the very least, how to do they think the Hohenzollern line continued, given that Fritz had no kids?
Post-1730 younger brothers?