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| − | From the 1823 German language novel ''Leben des Musikus Robert Auletes. Text zu einer noch unkomponirten Oper in den Pausen eines Concerts zu lesen und für zarte Seelen geschrieben'' (''Life of musician Robert Auletes. Text to a still unfinished [or uncomposed?] Opera to read in the pauses of a concert and for tender souls''). | + | From the 1823 German language novel ''Leben des Musikus Robert Auletes. Text zu einer noch unkomponirten Oper in den Pausen eines Concerts zu lesen und für zarte Seelen geschrieben'' (''Life of musician Robert Auletes. Text to a still unfinished [or uncomposed?] Opera to read in the pauses of a concert and written for tender souls''). |
| − | It was written by [http://ernst-ortlepp.de Ernst Ortlepp] under the pseudonym Johannes Paulus, "Professor des Contraviolons und Mitglied der philharmonischen Gesellschaft zu | + | It was written by [http://ernst-ortlepp.de Ernst Ortlepp] under the pseudonym Johannes Paulus, "Professor des Contraviolons und Mitglied der philharmonischen Gesellschaft zu Philomelenstädt" ("Professor of Contraviolons and member of the philharmonic society of Philomelenstadt)". Philomelenstädt is a fictional city, named after tragic Greek mythical figure [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philomela Philomela], and is six miles from Flötenhain (also fictional). |
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| + | His father was Fürchtegott Auletes, a Pastor at Flötenhain. At 12, Robert attended the Fürstenschule Mönchszelle in Musenhausen. | ||
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| + | He became the Kapellmeister at the court of the Prince of Musenhausen. | ||
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| + | His dad Fearless God Auletes, who was a pastor at Flötenhain, and wished that his little son should become - even though he was not averse to music at all, had breathed into him the love of the music himself by giving him some fiddle and violin Clavier taught with the intention of earning some private lessons at the Academy; but that was contrary to his plan, that the boy, who had now reached his twelfth year, did nothing but strum and tinker all day long, that when the father revised the school, he visited the sick, or had other official duties, secretly secretly and secretly copied from the Latin and Greek grammar, that under Gedikens' reading-book, when the father thought he had prepared for the Asopian fables, he had often hidden the Mildish books and other song-books, and silently composed melodies; and when he once remarked that he now also wanted flute, horn, clarinet, guitar, contraviolon, and so on. s. w. learn to play, so the father said angrily: | ||
| + | just come with your instruments; You shall not learn any of them - I do not want to be ashamed of you as a vagabonding musician in the world. In four weeks you will come to school! | ||
| + | Then little Robert wept, and crept sadly into the kitchen, to look for his mother, and to mourn her sorrow; a soft sigh of Concertante arose between them, and in their sad, prayerful eyes was reflected the merry burning fire, | ||
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| + | In my opinion he would be the greatest poet or musician who would be both at the same time; he would produce the sweetest thing when in him | ||
| + | Hours of enthusiasm the two languages of the heart, music and poetry in odes and harp play at the same time floated. | ||
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| + | With Robert, both had united early; he had often composed little songs, and then put them into music himself. | ||
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| + | To be sure, the mother was not entirely content with these exercises, but for other reasons than her husband; she believed that this would make the nerves of Robert, who was already delicate, too tense, and his blood too violent; Her anxiety was further increased by the fact that several examples of poets who had gone crazy crossed her head. However, it flattered her again on the other side, and she thought she had cause to fancy something that her little son has already climbed up one step of the helicopter, a mountain in Boeotia, and plays the clavier and violin so well. | ||
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| + | On the basis of this and the other reason mentioned above, because she knew no need for him to be unsatisfied, she brought him a flute from the Philomelsteel fair without the father's knowledge, which, of course, had to remain invisible and inaudible to her, otherwise she would both could have been forever. Robert wept at the sight of an instrument from which he once thought to blow out so many heavens, which now all still rest with their spherical tones under the flaps, and should be distinguished from them only in the bitterest and sweetest hours of his life. He planned these skies out of the pipe, like soap bubbles from a clay, to let them out, without, however, knowing that the tertium comparationis between such skies and soap bubbles was no other than impermanence. | ||
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| + | But here comes a rest with some breaks. | ||
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*https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433082264767 | *https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433082264767 | ||
*http://ernst-ortlepp.de/onewebmedia/Musikschriftsteller.pdf | *http://ernst-ortlepp.de/onewebmedia/Musikschriftsteller.pdf | ||
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| + | [[Category:1823|Auletes, Robert]] | ||
| + | [[Category:Novels|Auletes, Robert]] | ||
Latest revision as of 11:09, 18 February 2019
From the 1823 German language novel Leben des Musikus Robert Auletes. Text zu einer noch unkomponirten Oper in den Pausen eines Concerts zu lesen und für zarte Seelen geschrieben (Life of musician Robert Auletes. Text to a still unfinished [or uncomposed?] Opera to read in the pauses of a concert and written for tender souls).
It was written by Ernst Ortlepp under the pseudonym Johannes Paulus, "Professor des Contraviolons und Mitglied der philharmonischen Gesellschaft zu Philomelenstädt" ("Professor of Contraviolons and member of the philharmonic society of Philomelenstadt)". Philomelenstädt is a fictional city, named after tragic Greek mythical figure Philomela, and is six miles from Flötenhain (also fictional).
His father was Fürchtegott Auletes, a Pastor at Flötenhain. At 12, Robert attended the Fürstenschule Mönchszelle in Musenhausen.
He became the Kapellmeister at the court of the Prince of Musenhausen.
