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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: Karin Feuerstein-Praßer: Sophie Dorothea von Preußen
Date: 2022-02-12 07:33 pm (UTC)Ha! You are a public service and a godsend. <3
You know what salon needs? Salon needs a marketing department, so that authors around the world know that we're available to beta-read manuscripts before publication! I mean, we weren't in 2014, but we are now!
(It's not her fault the "Eugene as role model" approach did not work.)
Hahaha, trufax.
we learn Wilhelmine made up the story about FW hitting on Fräulein von Pannwitz and getting punched because little Sophie was just a toddler in 1733. Except that Wilhelmine never provides us with a first name for the lady (hence us first assuming it was the wife when it was the sister of Katte's commander)
It being the sister was in Ziebura! That's where we learned it from. She has no excuse!
Klement: WOW. Would say more, but pressed for time. Basically: what you said!
Old Young Dessauer is to blame for young FW in his first few years of marriage being paranoid that his Fiekchen might be cheating on him. Dessauer's motive? He was against the FW/SD marriage, wanting FW to marry one of his sisters instead, and for as long as SD and FW had no living son hoped to influence his buddy to the point where the marriage would be dissolved.
This is straight out of Wilhelmine's memoirs, although she says niece rather than sister.
The prince of Anhalt could not forgive the princess royal her having been preferred to his niece; he feared, lest she might obtain possession of the heart of her consort. To prevent this, he attempted to sow the seeds of discord between them; and availing himself of the prince's disposition to jealousy, they [Dessauer and Grumbkow] endeavoured to render him jealous of his spouse.
Caroline sent Fritz a ring made of Amalie/Emily's hair (! not the older sister)
Does not surprise me. I was looking through* Oncken when we were researching this, and as late as 1730, what the Hanovers are consistently saying is "one of our daughters." At different times, one or another might have been foremost in the negotiations, but they didn't really care which.
*Looking through rather than reading, because FONT.
Anyway, behold SD, of all the people, writing without any irony or sarcasm that Fritz takes care of Heinrich just like a father.
Doesn't surprise me. Society imposes a narrative on us about how family relationships work, and people say the socially right thing in the face of their own personal experience, either because too much truth is unacceptable or because they've half-convinced themselves of what they're supposed to believe. Have done it myself.
Über minister Görtz briefly pursued the cunning plan of getting Prussia out of the anti Swedish alliance by offering marry Wilhelmine to Charles.
This is ringing a bell, but I didn't know about the letter, thanks!
Johanna Charlotte bursts into tears and says no way is her boy going to marry Anna Ivanova, the age gap is just too much... but how about him/Wilhelmine instead?
Again, the existence of these proposals is ringing a bell, but not with this level of personal detail.
Johanna Charlotte (who is indeed designed as "die Markgräfin Philipp")
Ha! I am pleased my deductions, after failing to turn up a Markgräfin Philippine, were correct. (There was an illegitimate daughter Philippine, but no wives that I could find.)