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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: Some more Wilhelmine-Fritz correspondence
Date: 2022-02-12 08:01 pm (UTC)Yeah, such is the nature of Google translate, alas. Until one of us becomes fluent in French, it'll have to do.
which is not always easy to notice because the original has punctuation and capitalization issues of its own.
Indeed. And the editor went for a diplomatic transcription, so they all had to be passed in as the raw input to the API, which no doubt confused poor Google even more.
I'm obligated to the late King and to my upbringing, as I am able to be satisfied with little and live away from the world and its trappings.
Oh, wow. Now I understand!
Because once upon a time,
but she also was capable of writing "I am my father's daughter, I can face anything" early in the 7 Years War, i.e. retrospectively classifying those years of abuse as something she's currently drawing strength from in her miserable state.
Cahn and I both took that to be a near-verbatim quote and parsed it as "My dad proved his endurance through years of physical sufferings, and I can do no less." And we were skeptical that this was Wilhelmine crediting the abuse as something that didn't kill her and made her stronger. That was actually where I drew "I am my father's daughter" from in "Yet They Grind."
But if the actual quote was what you've provided here, then Selena was right!
Wow.