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Hans Schmidt (1859-1950)
Violins and Violets - Book One
Salzburg, 1784
19-year-old Katharina Schmidt is under pressure to find a husband and settle down. She and her younger brother Hans are musical prodigies who grew up travelling Europe, but now that they're older, Katharina is told to settle down and be ladylike. Hans - now on a solo tour - sends letters encouraging her to keep composing, and she does so. However, as Katharina becomes friends with other young women in Salzburg, she wonders if she really wants the same things as they do: are marriage and children really for her?
The first draft of this book was my NaNoWriMo project in November 2023.
Read more about my "Violins and Violets" series here!
See my posts about "Violins and Violets - Book One" here.
Most recent complete draft: 60-75k (estimated), finished in May 2026.
Current draft: 73k and counting, as of 7th July 2026.
Projected length: 120k
House Colnaghi-Abt (1927) in Riehen, Switzerland, by Hans Schmidt & Paul Artaria
Why do we feel like this is exactly how past break ups have worked for Hans?
Band of Brothers screencaps/edits (270/?)
Malarkey and the "Volksdeutsche" P.O.W.
That scene always makes me 😊 then 😢.
'Haus «Zum neuen Singer»', apartment building for single women St. Alban - Basel, Switzerland; 1928-29
Artaria & Schmidt (Paul Artaria + Hans Schmidt) (photography by Carlos Martí)
see map | more information 1, 2
via “2c Construccion” 22 (1985) / "Wohnen" 5 (1930)