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(Kärl Dit’-ters fun Dit’-ters-dôrf) 1739–99 Austrian composer One of the most important Viennese composers in the age of Haydn and Mozart, Dittersdorf held appointments as violinist, composer and Kapellmeister in Vienna, Grosswardein (now Oradea, Romania) and other courts in the Austrian Empire. He was a prolific composer, particularly of symphonies (among them 12 based on texts from ...

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an octave lower, the bass has a story not unlike that of the viola. Essentially an accompanying instrument, it achieved prominence when classical composers like Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739–99) began to write lively lines for it and even treated it as the soloist in his concertos. Styles & Forms | Late Baroque | Classical Instruments | Clarinet | ...

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Three Operas: The Ephesian Matron, The Brickdust Man, The Grenadier, Opera Restor’d (dir) Peter Holman (Hyperion) Introduction | Classical Era | Classical Personalities | Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf | Classical Era | Classical ...

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all musical friendships. There are contemporary accounts of the two men playing quartets together, with Haydn on first violin, Mozart on viola and the composers Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739–99) and Jan Krtitl Vanhal (1739–1813) on second violin and cello. We know, too, that Haydn attended rehearsals of Così fan tutte (‘That’s Women for You’) in the ...

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methods was to rework operas written by other composers. This is what he did with, for example, Doktor und Apotheker (‘Doctor and Apothecary’, 1788) by Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739–99). Success arrived at last with Storace’s full-length opera The Haunted Tower (1789), which packed Drury Lane with enthusiastic audiences and counted among the most popular operas staged during the ...