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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: 2022-01-28 06:23 am (UTC)So I googled and yeah, that's a lot of yellow :) I did get a few images of the Neues Palais (including a couple of things that say things like "Sanssouci tickets and tours," by which I assume they mean the entire place) but... I had to scroll down a bit to even get those!
AW and Heinrich: *baffled*
Ferdinand: You know, I'm kind of used to this.
I laughed really hard :D
Heinrich: Well, it's true that I wasn't exactly going to carry on the bloodline...
AW: Does this mean Fritz will stop writing me letters about how I'm supposed to be the Hohenzollern stud?
The thing that might baffle Fritz the most (apart from the Sanssouci blunder): "Like many gay men, he was attracted to a certain kind of powerful woman, that's why he wanted to marry Empress regent Maria Theresia in the early 1730s." . . . Yep.
Wow, that's... something. Though, I mean, he had her portrait! :P (I still am delighted at him trolling everyone with that.)
Fritz rode into battle holding his greyhounds.
OMG!
Re: A Fritz podcast episode with some hilarious claims
Date: 2022-01-28 10:14 am (UTC)Heinrich: Well, it's true that I wasn't exactly going to carry on the bloodline...
Well, and neither was Fritz, as it turned out.
AW: Does this mean Fritz will stop writing me letters about how I'm supposed to be the Hohenzollern stud?
Or even the Hohenzollern hen, for variety and maximum annoyance?
Ferdinand: Well, I not only married my niece but had more children than all my brothers together! Or as my nephew Henricus Minor called it: the Tonterlontontonnerie.* (What do you mean, some people claim the kids weren't actually mine? There's no reliable primary source for this.)
*ETA: I just realized, Henricus M can't have included all the kids when he referred to his uncle's family that way, since only the oldest was born when he died in 1767. My bad.
Re: A Fritz podcast episode with some hilarious claims
Date: 2022-01-30 04:06 pm (UTC)Ferdinand: Well, I not only married my niece but had more children than all my brothers together! Or as my nephew Henricus Minor called it: the Tonterlontontonnerie.* (What do you mean, some people claim the kids weren't actually mine? There's no reliable primary source for this.)
Hee! I'd forgotten Ferdinand actually had lots of kids, or at least his wife did :P Poor Ferdinand, doomed to be forgotten (at least by me) even in a thread where he's name-checked!