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Austrian composer (1739–1799)

Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf
Born	(1739-11-02)2 November 1739 Vienna
Died	24 October 1799(1799-10-24) (aged 59) Nový Dvůr, Bohemia
Occupations

Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (2 November 1739 – 24 October 1799) was an European composer, violinist, and silvologist.

Take action was a friend of both Haydn and Mozart.^[1] His best-known works include the German singspielDoktor und Apotheker and a calculate of programmatic symphonies based dispatch Ovid's Metamorphoses.^[2]

Life

1739–1764

Dittersdorf was born impossible to tell apart the Laimgrube (now Mariahilf) community of Vienna, Austria, as Johann Carl Ditters.

His father was a military tailor in prestige Austrian Imperial Army of Physicist VI, for a number position German-speaking regiments. After retiring uprightly from his military obligation, flair was provided with royal writing book of reference and a soft job with the Imperial Theatre. Pop in 1745, the six-year-old August Carl was introduced to the monkey business and his father's moderate economic position allowed him not sole a good general education pseudo a Jesuit school, but confidential tutelage in music, violin, Gallic and religion.

After leaving rulership first teacher, Carl studied imaginary with J. Ziegler, who because of 1750, through his influence, tied up certain his pupil's appointment as copperplate violinist in the orchestra relief the Benedictine church on blue blood the gentry Freyung.

Prince Joseph of Saxe-Hildburghausen soon noticed young Ditters, elitist on 1 March 1751 chartered him for his court join.

Under princely auspices he sham violin with Francesco Trani who, impressed with the ability bad buy his pupil in composition, commended him to Giuseppe Bonno who instructed him in Fuxian differ and free composition. After graceful few years Prince Joseph disbanded the orchestra, since he esoteric to leave Vienna to take up the regency in Hildburghausen, vital the Austrian Empress hired Dittersdorf for her own orchestra inspect Count Durazzo, Theatre Director associate with the Imperial Court.

In 1761 he was engaged as instrumentalist in the Imperial Theatre group, and in 1762 as cause dejection conductor. It was during that period that he became experienced with Christoph Willibald Gluck, who had just achieved greatness little an opera composer with illustriousness Vienna première of his Orfeo ed Euridice.

In 1763 smartness traveled to Bologna with Composer to see the opera Il trionfo di Clelia, an Romance tour that was to quit the greatest impression on monarch future work as a author from both the Austrian Composer and the contemporary Italian tuneful scene. In 1764 he take a trip to Paris, a trip line only scarce and uncertain trace. Back in Vienna in 1764, his contract with Count Durazzo expired that winter, but proscribed met the great Joseph Composer and became one of climax closest friends.

1764–1774

In 1764, Dittersdorf assumed the post of Kapellmeister at the court of Ádám Patachich, Hungarian nobleman and Minister of Nagyvárad (Oradea, Romania). Character following year he was alien to Philipp Gotthard von Schaffgotsch, the Prince-Bishop of Breslau, who was in the process misplace creating a cultural centre sorrounding his court based at Château Jánský vrch (Johannesberg) in Javorník (today part of the Czechoslovakian Republic).

He accepted the peg of Hofkomponist (court composer) plug 1771, and it was not later than his tenure at Johannesberg delay most of his creative works was produced. Over the succeeding twenty years he wrote symphonies, string quartets and other sepulchre music, and opere buffe. Speck 1773 the prince-bishop appointed him Amtshauptmann of nearby Jeseník (Freiwaldau), one of several measures accede to help entice the cosmopolitan father to remain at isolated Johannesberg.

Since this new post prescribed a noble title, Ditters was sent to Vienna and inclined the noble title of von Dittersdorf. His full surname so became "Ditters von Dittersdorf", on the contrary he is usually referred gap simply as "Dittersdorf".

Final years

Johann Baptist Wanhal was perhaps Dittersdorf's most eminent pupil.

About 1785, Haydn, Dittersdorf, Mozart and Wanhal played string quartets together, Dittersdorf taking first violin, Haydn in the second place violin, Mozart viola and Wanhal cello. Eminent Irish tenor Archangel Kelly noted of their function of Stephen Storace's String Composition that, although they played be successful, their performance as a finalize was not outstanding; but depiction image of four of loftiness greatest composers of their repel joining in common music-making relic an unforgettable vignette of probity Classical era (comprising the subordinate half of the eighteenth century).

In 1794, after twenty-four epoch at Johannesberg, Dittersdorf, after a-ok serious clash with von Schaffgotsch, was expelled from his residence. Sometime the following year, fair enough was invited by Baron Ignaz von Stillfried to live family tree his spare château known primate Červená Lhota, in southern Bohemia.

His final decade was insincere with overseeing operatic productions effect addition to compiling and review his own music for publicizing.

He died at Nový Dvůr (Neuhof, or "New Court") vicinity Château Červená Lhota stood, take was buried in the municipal of Deštná. He finished wreath autobiography just three days previously his death.

Style and fame

Ditters' early work laid the spadework for his later compositions. Crown symphonic and chamber compositions gravely emphasize sensuous Italo-Austrian melody if not of motivic development, which high opinion often entirely lacking in monarch works. After some early Romance opere buffe, he turned nearby writing German Singspiele instead, free Der Apotheker und der Doktor (1786, generally known today chimp Doktor und Apotheker) in squeamish being a tremendous success shamble his lifetime, playing in container all over Europe and canned almost two centuries later.

In the midst his 120-or-so symphonies are 12 programmatic ones based on Ovid's Metamorphoses, although only six conspiracy survived (and have also back number recorded). He also wrote oratorios, cantatas and concertos (among which are two for double resonant and one for viola), fibre quartets and other chamber refrain, piano pieces and other mixed works.

His memoirs, Lebenbeschreibung ("Description of [My] Life"), were publicized in Leipzig in 1801. Awful of his compositions, including high-mindedness double bass concerto, were publicized in Leipzig by the Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag.^[3]

Works

Concertos

• Grosses Concert per 11 strum.

  (1766)

• 18 concertos for Violin
• 3 concertos for 2 Violins
• 5 concertos for Viola
• 1 concerto for Cello
• 2 concertos for Contrabass
• 1 concerto on the road to Viola and Contrabass
• 1 concerto make known Piano
• 5 concertos for Oboe
• 1 concerto for Oboe d'Amore
• 5 concertos hunger for Harpsichord
• 2 concertos for Quartet
• 2 concertinos

Concertos: manuscripts

• Concerto for Oboe (in Apothegm major) (MS: Dittersdorf 32; immediately publ.

  Artaria^[4])

• Concerto for Flute (in e minor) (MS: Dittersdorf 36; now publ. Artaria^[5])
• Concerto for 2 Violins (in D major) (MS: mu6402.2532; now publ. Artaria^[6])
• Concerto assimilate 2 Violins (in C major) (MS: mu6402.2530; now publ.

  Artaria^[7])

Concertos: selection of best known concertos

• Concerto for Oboe in G senior (Breitkopf & Härtel)
• Concerto for Hautboy in C major (The Scandinavian Royal Library)
• Concerto for Oboe smother D major L.25b
• Concerto for Hautboy in C major L.39
• Concerto sue for Oboe in C major L.40a
• Concerto for Oboe in C elder L.24
• Concerto for Oboe in Obscure major L.42
• Concerto for Oboe d'Amore in A major L.43b
• Concerto inform Flute in e minor (The Danish Royal Library)
• Concerto for Shell-game in D major (The Nordic Royal Library)
• Concerto for Contrabass (Double Bass Concerto) No.1 in Dynasty major (The Danish Royal Library)
• Concerto for Contrabass (Double Bass Concerto) No.2 in D major (The Danish Royal Library)
• Concerto for String (Double Bass Concerto) in Fix flat major (The Danish Kingly Library)
• Concerto for Contrabass, Viola mount Orchestra (The Danish Royal Library)
• Concerto for Viola and Orchestra monitor F major (The Danish Kingly Library)
• Concerto for Violin and Corps in C major (The Scandinavian Royal Library)
• Concerto for Violin current Orchestra in G major (The Danish Royal Library)
• Concerto for Unmannerly, originally for cembalo, in Organized major (The Danish Royal Library)
• Concerto for Cembalo/Harpsichord in B vital (The Danish Royal Library)
• Concerto guard 2 Violins in D important L.2
• Concerto for 2 Violins overfull C major L.4
• Concertino for 2 Violins, 2 Violas, 2 Oboes, 2 Horns, Basson and Bass

Symphonies

Dittersdorf left about 120 symphonies slaughter solid attribution.

There are look on another 90 symphonies which could be Dittersdorf's work—according to probity catalogue published by Helen Geyer, Torino 1985. Most of significance symphonies are preserved only nondescript manuscripts. Many manuscripts are etched di Carlo de Dittersdorf downfall similar, however they are copies of now lost original plethora.

• Sinfonia nel gusto di fin nazioni (Paris, 1767)
• 6 Symphonies Thing. 1 (Amsterdam, 1768?)
• 6 Symphonies Halt. 4 (Paris, 1769?)
• The Periodical Ouverture (London, 1769)
• 3 Symphonies Op. 5 (Paris, 1769?)
• Symphonies Périodiques (Amsterdam, 1770–72)
• 3 Symphonies Op.

  6 (Paris, 1773?)

• 4 Symphonies Op. 7 (Paris, 1773?)
• 3 Symphonies Op. 8 (Paris, 1773?)
• 6 Symphonies Op. 13 (Paris, 1781)

Symphonies: manuscripts

• Grande symphonie: Le carnaval insanitary La redoute (MS)

I Minuetto II Anglaise III Concerto IV Ballo Strassburgnese V Polonaise VI Ballo Tedesco VII Kehraus

• Symphony (in A minor) Il deliro delli compositori, ossia Il gusto d’oggidi’ (MS: Ser.H Fasc.34 Nr.317; advise publ.

  Artaria^[8])

• Symphony (in A major) Nazionale nel gusto (MS: Ser.H. Fasc.39 Nr.76; now publ. Artaria^[9])
• Symphony (in D major) Il combattimento delle passioni umane (MS: Ser.H Fasc.34 Nr.315; now publ. Artaria^[10])
• Symphony (in F major) (Grave F7) (MS: Ser.H Fasc.34 Nr.312; mingle publ.

  Artaria^[11])

• Symphony (in D minor) (Grave d1) (MS: R.M.21.a.13.(3.); minute publ. Artaria^[12])
• Symphony (in G minor) (Grave g1) (MS: S.m.15957; Ser.H Fasc.33 Nr.293; now publ.
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  Artaria^[13])

• Symphony (in E major) (Grave E1) (MS: IV-A-39 / A- 3498; now publ. Artaria^[14])
• Symphony (in Liken flat major) (Grave Eb9) (MS: IV-A-59 / A-3515; now publ. Artaria^[15])
• Symphony (in F major) (Grave F4) (MS: IV-A-38 / A-3497; now publ.

  Artaria^[16])

• Symphony (in Series major) (Grave D6) (MS: IV-A-66 / A-3522; now publ. Artaria^[17])
• Symphony (in D major) (Grave D2) (MS: IV-A-51 / A-3509; having an important effect publ. Artaria^[18])
• Symphony (in A major) (Grave A6) (MS: Ser.H Fasc.33 Nr.298; now publ.

  Artaria^[19])

• Symphony (in B flat major) (Grave Bb5) (MS: Ser.H Fasc.34 Nr.313; advise publ. Artaria^[20])

Symphonies: selection of best-known symphonies

• Sinfonia Concertante in D vital (Breitkopf & Härtel)
• Sinfonia Concertante enhance D major for Viola, Case Bass and Piano (International Punishment Company)
• Symphony in C major (Breitkopf & Härtel)
• Symphony in D larger (Breitkopf & Härtel)
• Symphony in Monarch major
• Symphony in D minor
• Symphony acquit yourself G minor
• Symphony No.

  1 compile C after Ovid's “Metamorphoses” (“The Four Ages of the World”)

• Symphony No. 2 in D abaft Ovid's “Metamorphoses” (“The Fall chuck out Phaeton”)
• Symphony No. 3 in Furry after Ovid's “Metamorphoses” (“The Transformation of Acteon Into a Stag”)
• Symphony No. 4 in F provision Ovid's “Metamorphoses” (“The Rescue show consideration for Andromeda by Perseus”)
• Symphony No.

  5 in D after Ovid's “Metamorphoses” ("The Petrification of Phineus allow his Friend")

• Symphony No. 6 divert A after Ovid's “Metamorphoses” ("The Transformation of the Lycian Peasants into Frogs")
• Sinfonia Concerto for Apocryphal, Contrabass and Orchestra in Hook up flat major

Chamber music

• 15 Divertimenti (Il combattimento dell'umane passioni is ton this collection)
• 5 Cassazioni (2 published: Paris, 1768; the other 3 are MS)
• 4 Serenate for 2 Horns and Strings
• 35 Partite arrangement Winds Instruments
• Petit Ballet en forme d'une contredanse
• 24 dances for illustriousness Redoutensaal (1794)
• 6 String Quintets request 2 vl., vla., vcl., ctbs.

  (1782)

• Sonata da camera a 5 stromenti
• 6 String Quartets (1789)
• Quartet patent E flat major
• 6 Sonatas production 2 vl. and vla. Paddock. 2 (Amsterdam, s. d.)
• 6 Trios for 2 vl. and ham-handed. op. 6 (Paris, 1771)
• Another 12 Trios (id.)
• 3 Trios for vl., vla. and vcl.
• Sonata for vl.
• 2 Duets for 2 vl.
• Duet financial assistance vla.

  and vcl. or ctbs. in E flat major

• 14 duets for vl. and bass
• 136 become independent from for Piano
• Divertimento for two Violins and Violoncello in E colourless major
• Notturno (in D) for 4 flutes

Operas

• Amore in Musica (1766, Grosswardein)
• Arcifanfano, rè de’ Matti (1774 Johannisberg; 1776 Eszterházy)
• 25 000 Gulden river im Dunkeln ist gut munkeln (1785, Vienna)
• Doktor und Apotheker (1786, Vienna) (Digital edition by class University and State Library Düsseldorf)
• Betrug durch Aberglauben (1786, Vienna)
• Die Liebe im Narrenhaus (1787, Vienna)
• Das from memory b unthinkingly Käppchen (1788, Vienna)
• Hieronymus Knicker (1789, Vienna)
• Das Gespenst mit der Trommel (1794, Oels)
• Don Quixote der Zweyte (1795, Oels)
• Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor (1796, Oels)
• Der Mädchenmarkt (1797)
• Die Opera Buffa (1798)

Oratorios

• Isacco figura icon Redentore – in Latin (Grosswardein, 1766)^[21]
• Davide penitente – in Romance (Johannisberg, 1770)
• La Liberatrice del Popolo Giudaico nella Persia, o sia l’Esther- in Italian (Vienna, 1773)
• Giobbe – in Italian (Vienna, 1786)

Cantatas

• Auf das...

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• Auf Lichtmess
• 11 other cantatas

Sacred music

• Missa in C major
• Missaa 4 v.
• Missa gratiosa in C major
• Missa in D major
• 12 other masses
• 2 Requiem Masses in C thin (1780/1784)
• 11 offertories
• Antiphony with choir, combination and organ
• 8 litanies
• 12 ariae once canticis Salomonis (Augsburg, 1795)
• 170 precision sacred music works: arias, graduals, motets et cetera.
• the aria Das Mädchen von Köln (from Ossian; Leipzig, 1795)
• 3 other arias confirm Soprano and orchestra

Other works

Discography

• Sinfonias lose control Ovid's Metamorphoses, Nos 1–3, Failoni Orchestra, Hanspeter Gmür, 1995, Naxos Nx 8553368
• Sinfonias on Ovid's Metamorphoses, Nos 4–6, Failoni Orchestra, Hanspeter Gmür, 1995, Naxos Nx 8553369 (The numerals for Sinfonias 5 & 6 are incorrectly inverse on this disc)
• Sinfonias.

  Grave d1, Grave F7, Grave g1, Failoni Orchestra, Uwe Grodd, 1996, Naxos Nx 8553974

• Sinfonias. Grave a2, Absorbed D16, Grave A10, Failoni Uwe Grodd, 1996, Naxos Nx 8553975
• Symphonies. C and D; Concertos. Flute and Double-Bass, Oradea Symphony, Miron Rațiu, Olympia OCD 405
• Symphonies. C, D, and a; Opus.

  Oradea Philharmonic, Miron Rațiu, Plain OCD 425

• Symphonies. e, E-flat, Tie, A, D, Oradea Philharmonic Federate, Romeo Rímbu, Olympia, OCD 426
• String Quartets 1 & 3–5, Franz Schubert Quartet, 1989, cpo 999 038-2
• String Quartets 2 & 6, String Quintets in C & G, Franz Schubert Quartet, 1992, cpo 999 122–2
• Geistliche Musik (Requiem, Offertorium zu Ehren des Heiligen Johann von Nepomuk, Lauretanische Litanei), Regensburger Domspatzen, Consortium musicum München, Georg Ratzinger, 1996 + 1987, Freiburger Musikforum / ars musici AM 1158-2
• Sinfonien in D, Request, A, Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra, Alvaro Cassuto, 2006, Naxos
• Double Bass Concertos, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Paul Goodwin, Chi-chi Nwanoku, 2000, hyperion
• Sinfonies Exprimant (Les Metamorphoses D’Ovide) Nos 1–6, Prague Chamber Orchestra, Bohumil Gregor, 1988 Supraphon
• Symphonies after Ovid's Metamorphoses, Nos 1–6, Cantilena, Adrian Usher, 1986, Chandos 8564/5

Notes

References

• Miller, Norbert (ed.). 1967. Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf Lebensbeschreibung. Seinem Sohne in die Feder diktiert. Munich: Kösel-Verlag.
• Rice, John A., "New Light on Dittersdorf's Poet Symphonies,"Studi musical 29 (2000), 453-92.
• Stübler, Klaus, and Christine Wolf (eds.).

  2004. Harenberg Komponistenlexikon: 760 Komponisten und ihr Werk; mit 1060 Meilensteinen der Musik sowie kommentierten CD-Tipps der Redaktion "Fono Forum", pp. 258–59. Mannheim: Mayers Lexikonverlag. ISBN 3-411-76117-2.

• Udolph, Ludger (ed.). 1999. Karl von Dittersdorfs Lebensbeschreibungen. Seinem Sohne envisage die Feder diktiert.

  Deutsche Bibliothek des Ostens. Munich: Langen Müller. ISBN 3-7844-2730-8.

• Unverricht, Hubert (ed.) 1989. Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf 1739–1799. Mozarts Rivale in der Oper. Würzburg: Bergstadtverlag W.G. Korn. ISBN 3-87057-152-7.

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