page_title: Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf
section_title: Style and fame
hierarchical_section_title: Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf / Style and fame
caption_attribution_description: Polski: Tablica ku czci Karla Dittersa von Dittersdorfa przed wejściem do zamku w Jeseniku
context_page_description: Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf was an Austrian composer, violinist and silvologist. He was friends with both Haydn and Mozart.
context_section_description: Ditters' early work laid the groundwork for his later more important compositions.  His symphonic and chamber compositions greatly emphasize sensuous Italo-Austrian melody instead of motivic development, which is often entirely lacking even in his best works, quite unlike those of his greater peers Haydn and Mozart.
  Even with these reservations, Dittersdorf was an important composer of the Classical era. After some early Italian opere buffe, he turned to writing German Singspiele instead, with Der Apotheker und der Doktor (1786, generally known today as Doktor und Apotheker) in particular being a tremendous success in his lifetime, playing in houses all over Europe and recorded almost two centuries later. Among his 120-or-so symphonies are twelve programmatic ones based on Ovid's Metamorphoses, although only six have survived (and have also been recorded).  He also wrote oratorios, cantatas and concertos (among which are two for double bass and one for viola), string quartets and other chamber music, piano pieces and other miscellaneous works. His memoirs, Lebenbeschreibung ("Description of [My] Life"), were published in Leipzig in 1801. Some of his compositions, including the double bass concerto, were published in Leipzig by the Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag.
caption: The plaque for Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf in Jeseník
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