cahn | 18th-Century Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 37

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More diaries of our favorite 18th-century Prussian diary-keeper have been unearthed and have been synopsized!

January 18th: Blessed be thou to me! Under your light, my Prince Heinrich was born!

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selenak

As you're the woman for the numbers, I looked up some for you.

Leopold had to pay in Aachen, where the Mozarts were staying at the inn "Zum goldenen Drachen" (now there's a good name!) "The Golden Dragon": 75 Gulden, for a relatively short stay. This was two and a half times his monthly salary as First Concert Master in Salzburg.

In Vienna, he received for the three hours concert his kids gave to MT & her kids & husband: 100 Golden Ducats, which were 450 Silver Gulden, which was what Leopold earned in a year. Plus some silver snuff boxes plus a gala gown/ costume each for Nannerl and Wolfers from an arch duchess and an arch duke. The last, btw, wasn't a shabby gesture but a very complimentary and practical one. These gala gowns weren't worn often, the kids grew out of them, and because of the perdigree and the expensive material, undoubtedly the Mozarts could sell them once Wolferl and Nannerl had grown out of them, too.

Entrance fee for public concerts per person, not special performances like the one for MT: Four Gulden in a city like Frankfurt (Goethe Senior, JWG's Dad, wrote this in his account book).

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cahn

The last, btw, wasn't a shabby gesture but a very complimentary and practical one. These gala gowns weren't worn often, the kids grew out of them, and because of the perdigree and the expensive material, undoubtedly the Mozarts could sell them once Wolferl and Nannerl had grown out of them, too.

This I did not know, thank you! (I think I may have heard that they got fancy dress, but I think I did think it was a shabby gesture.)