Hi everyone! You can call me Lev :) I am still getting used to how this site works, so hopefully this reply shows up in the right place.
I recently left a few comments on some wonderful Hohenzollern fics on AO3 and then was directed here by Mildred! I've started reading the Blanning biography of Fritz but keep getting distracted by the travel diaries and correspondences of Alexander Von Humboldt. They just make for such compelling reading - so i'm steadily making my way through all of them and it's taking up all my reading time 😄 If anyone wants to talk Alex with me I'd be delighted. But I'm also looking forward to learning more about Fritz and co.
Yesterday I visited the Stabi Kulturwerk in Berlin. I was able to look at original sheet music of a concert for 5 Joachim Quantz wrote for Fritz. As well as a Faksimile of an aria embellished and written down by Fritz himself.
Well, if anyone is a great and powerful distraction, it certainly must be Alexander von Humboldt. :) To my shame, I must confess that I am more familiar with his fictional versions, i.e. both Daniel Kehlmann's Alex and Robert Löhr's version in the hilarious and entertaining Das Erlkönig-Manöver, where he gets to hang out and have an adventure with Goethe, Schiller, Achim von Arnim and Bettine Brentano and have an affair with Heinrich von Kleist. Unlike you, I haven't tackled his actual writings yet-
Thank you so much for these pictures. That is fantastic; Quantz is another character who'd be worth a film or miniseries of his own, rising from obscurity to being one of the best known musicians and composers of his day, playing for Saxon and Prussian courts alike. (And providing us with one of the few Katte stories that aren't about his execution via the anecdote he told Nicolai about almost getting caught teaching Fritz by FW, with Katte on the lookout spotting the approaching FW in time to hide Quantz and himself and the flutes.)
I'm unfortunately without a computer for the next 3 weeks (traveling), so I can't reply at length, but I look forward to more Fritz chat when I get back.
Thank you for sharing the facsimiles. Those are very cool and I know cahn will love them.
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Date: 2025-08-31 03:00 pm (UTC)Hi everyone! You can call me Lev :) I am still getting used to how this site works, so hopefully this reply shows up in the right place.
I recently left a few comments on some wonderful Hohenzollern fics on AO3 and then was directed here by Mildred! I've started reading the Blanning biography of Fritz but keep getting distracted by the travel diaries and correspondences of Alexander Von Humboldt. They just make for such compelling reading - so i'm steadily making my way through all of them and it's taking up all my reading time 😄 If anyone wants to talk Alex with me I'd be delighted. But I'm also looking forward to learning more about Fritz and co.
Yesterday I visited the Stabi Kulturwerk in Berlin. I was able to look at original sheet music of a concert for 5 Joachim Quantz wrote for Fritz.
As well as a Faksimile of an aria embellished and written down by Fritz himself.
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Date: 2025-08-31 04:04 pm (UTC)Thank you so much for these pictures. That is fantastic; Quantz is another character who'd be worth a film or miniseries of his own, rising from obscurity to being one of the best known musicians and composers of his day, playing for Saxon and Prussian courts alike. (And providing us with one of the few Katte stories that aren't about his execution via the anecdote he told Nicolai about almost getting caught teaching Fritz by FW, with Katte on the lookout spotting the approaching FW in time to hide Quantz and himself and the flutes.)
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Date: 2025-08-31 04:38 pm (UTC)I'm unfortunately without a computer for the next 3 weeks (traveling), so I can't reply at length, but I look forward to more Fritz chat when I get back.
Thank you for sharing the facsimiles. Those are very cool and I know