Klarinet Archive - Posting 000349.txt from 2002/07

From: "rien stein" <rstein@-----.nl>
Subj: [kl] Leupold
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 18:29:55 -0400

Neil Leupold <leupold_1@-----.com> wrote

<<
Being both a serious musician *and* a thoroughbred German,
>>

Wasn't Leupold the first name of the count of Dessau-Anhalt, somewhere
between 1750 and 1800, the one they called "Der alte Dessauer" ("the old man
from Dessau")? Despite your very American first name: is there any
rlationship between you and him?

(For those not well-vrsed in tyhe history of the German state of
Sachsen-Anhalt_ Dessau is a small town in the German state of
Sachsen-Anhalt. Its prince Leupold (if I remeber right, however) used to go
through his land (and also outside of it) incognito. He had many special
qualities, but his most special hobby was to be a matchmaker, especially
where there was a difference in rank, he liked to couple the duke's or
baronet's son or whatever to the maiden, so to speak. He even provided the
money. He sometimes required to beat the weding, at all cases however his
main demand was that he be the godfather of the first child born into this
marriage.)

Rien

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