Klarinet Archive - Posting 000353.txt from 2002/07

From: Neil Leupold <leupold_1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Leupold
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 20:04:17 -0400

Honestly, I don't know. I'm curious however, since you mentioned it.
Maybe I'll do a little digging in my spare time (which means it's never
going to happen). Considering that I was born in 1970 to immigrant par-
ents who wanted their newborn son to reach for the stars (or shoot for
the moon, at the very least), can anybody guess the particular American
after whom I was named? ;-)

--- rien stein <rstein@-----.nl> wrote:
> 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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