ABSTRACT
Karl-Eugen wished the new institution to include a selection from the best of his subjects, in whom he saw the future hope of Württemberg. His Serene Highness, as Karl-Eugen was called, delighted with his new creation, made an almost daily visit to his favourite enterprise. On the insistence of Frederick II, Karl-Eugen liberated his prisoner after ten years and gave him a cordial welcome, a comfortable pension and appointed him Director of Music in Stuttgart. Francisca for her part, in the same way as Karl-Eugen, was tempted to play the role of educationist on the pattern of Mme de Maintenon. In 1775 Karl-Eugen decided that Solitude was too restricted a setting for his Karlsschule. The Karlsschule, founded at Solitude in 1771, according to Burney, was housed in a building with a facade six to seven hundred feet long. The details of life in the Karlsschule are known from the accounts of pupils like Hoven, Petersen, Scharfenstein and all Streicher.
