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[barschter000]

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[barschter000]

HAPPY 323RD ANNIVERSARY (June 9, 1703) OF THE FIRST MEETING OF HÄNDEL AND MATTHESON 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[barschter000]

okay first Johann Matthesonposting post. The wild and unexpectedly homosexual rpf biography novel about Händel I read kept describing him as having the face of a girl and. Uh.

The girl in question:

(engravings by Johann Jakob Haid, 1746 (left) and Christian Fritzsch, 1769 (right) after Johann Solomon Wahl (the engravings look so different I wish I could find the portrait they're based on))

[barschter000]

I think I figured out why! According to his Ehrenpforte, Mattheson sang female roles at the opera in Kiel before his voice broke and people made bets on his gender and I guess Paul Barz assumed he still looked as gender-ambiguous at 20 as he looked when he was 15/16. His eternal youth...

[barschter000]

Auch wenn es faktisch gesehen teilweise Mumpitz* ist, amüsiert mich das Bild, das Paul Barz hier von Händel und Mattheson zeichnet, immens. Buchstäblich dieselben Worte wie in der Szene mit Telemann, nur dass Händel deswegen nicht gleich rumheult (auch wenn diese Zeilen damit eingeleitet werden, dass er zu Hause Dove sei, amato bene spielt und mitsingt und an Mattheson denken muss, der ihm in Hamburg gesagt hat, er soll das Singen bleiben lassen, weil er es nicht kann. ... Interessante Assoziation.)

Die innigkeitsallergischen worsties, die sich niemals schreiben, aber immer auf Antworten warten <3

*Teilweiser Mumpitz deswegen, weil Händel in seiner Antwort auf Matthesons Anfrage bezüglich seines Lebenslaufs wirklich nicht fragt, wie es ihm geht (zumindest wenn Mattheson den Brief nicht mehr als angegeben gekürzt hat). Aber Mumpitz deswegen, weil Mattheson ihn wohl wegen seiner Ehrenpforte mehrmals(!) angeschrieben hat und weil Händel ihm bezüglich der Widmung im Beschützten Orchester einen Brief geschickt, sich wohl also auch mehr als einmal gemeldet hat. Aber das ist nicht das Einzige aus Matthesons Ehrenpforte, was Paul Barz getrost ignoriert hat, wie zum Beispiel sein Interesse an Frauen lmaoooo

[barschter000]

Mattheson's compositions are a bit hit or miss to my amateur ear because sometimes they don't go where I expect them to go but this one is a hit

[oldbutchdanielmolloy]

getting obsessed with a real life guy who sucks is the ultimate cure for all ails

[barschter000]

Apparently Mattheson was fire-resistant but very weak to water. We must throw rocks at him and trap him in a wind tunnel to find out his other elemental strengths and weaknesses.

[Translation: I read Mattheson's autobiography in his Ehrenpforte and he randomly dropped the claim that when he was a child, he grabbed a hot flat iron from the fire and carried it around without it injuring his hand (????). But he almost drowned like five times.]

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[barschter000]

THUNDERSTORM BABEEEYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[missilia-amorii]

the executioner comes

[charlemane]

Question for opera lovers! If a genie gave you the ability to commission any composer, alive or dead, to adapt any story (book, movie, folklore, Twitter thread, whatever) into an opera, who would you commission and what would you have them adapt?

[barschter000]

I am delighted to find that the novel has not forgotten about Mattheson despite Händel having no business in Germany anymore, and he's still as worthy of being hit with a folding chair by me as he was in the Hamburg chapters <3

Also Telemann. What a bro. Getting caught up in gay drama while he's just trying to enjoy some chocolate and discuss operas and yet he's willing to help

[With "Ottone", Händel's roaring success returns. The people speak of it even in Hamburg where in 1721, his friend Telemann had become music director of all five main churches. Now he is sitting in a coffeehouse at the Alster, blows into the cream froth of his chocolate and is happy about his friend's success. A voice interrupts his thoughts, "It seems we will soon get to experience 'Ottone' here in Hamburg as well?" Johann Mattheson, by now founder of the journal "Critica musica" in which he intends to burn all "barbaric shrubbery" of musical weeds "in the fire of reason", is standing next to his table. Telemann gestures invitingly, Mattheson takes a seat. "Well, why not? You yourself prepared his 'Radamisto' for our opera, too. And as an old friend…" "Old friend!" It almost sounds like a sob. "In all those years, he's only written me once and so coldly as if we had never met. Not a single cordial word, no asking how I'm faring…" Telemann blinks at the glittering surface of the water. "Have you ever written him?" "More than that. I sent him my 'Beschütztes Orchester' with a personal dedication and I asked him for biographical information for my work about famous composers of our time. He doesn't have the time and leisure for something like that, that was all he replied. Conceited fop! As if he forgot that he has me, only me to thank for so many things and that without me, he'd have stayed a minor Saxon organist." He wipes his eyes. "I'm sorry! Only a grain of dust…" The other observes him. These are more than the words of a friend aggrieved. They are the words of a deeply hurt lover lamenting a lost love. Telemann takes a careful sip of his chocolate, "Maybe he's afraid, Mattheson!" "Afraid?" Confused, Mattheson looks up. "Händel is afraid? Of what?" "Perhaps of himself. Of the past. Of his feelings. They're easier to express in music than in letters." Telemann replaces his cup. "I wanted to write him about his 'Ottone' anyway. May I send him your regards? Despite it all, dear Mattheson?" "Comment?" Telemann repeats his question very loudly, Mattheson stares intently at his lips. Then he only shrugs and leaves. "He is hard of hearing," Telemann thinks. And, "Then I'll send his regards. And what else can I write Händel?"]

[peachducy]

foggy night

[barschter000]

The world has turned against me, life is hell and I am cursed why is getting harpsichord lessons so hard

[barschter000]

Contacted the other music school that's an hour away from me, so let's see if they get back to me and if they have a harpsichord that's in playable shape

[barschter000]

They told me to sign up and that they'd get back to me as soon as they have a free slot which could either be the default non-committal answer or it could mean that I won't be hearing from them for months again...................

[p3anut47]

id like to interact with my mutuals more but i get scared pls forgive me

[barschter000]

Was told in my voice lesson to pay more attention to my eyebrows while I sing because I move them a lot and yeah I frequently make a face like a tortured saint 😭😭

I'm just like him fr.............

(cropped version of Saint Sebastian by Guido Reni)

[barschter000]

The world has turned against me, life is hell and I am cursed why is getting harpsichord lessons so hard

[barschter000]

Contacted the other music school that's an hour away from me, so let's see if they get back to me and if they have a harpsichord that's in playable shape