Klarinet Archive - Posting 000355.txt from 2002/07

From: Alexander Brash <mactrek@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Leupold
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 20:15:06 -0400

eh neil armstrong

> From: Neil Leupold <leupold_1@-----.com>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 17:04:17 -0700 (PDT)
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Leupold
>
> 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