Composer of the Month 11/2014: Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf
(selected by Peter van Dessel / Belgium)
Austria 24.10.1974 |
the first movement of the "Concerto for Double Bass in E" by Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf. Soloist is Bozo Paradzik. |
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The Austrian composer Johann Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf was born on November 2, 1739 in Vienna.
His musical career began as a violinist in the Vienna Court Opera. Christoph Willibald Gluck took
him on a trip to Italy in 1763, where Dittersdorf had great successes as a violin virtuoso.
In 1765 he was Kapellmeister of the bishop in Transylvania and in 1770 Kapellmeister of Prince-Bishop
of Breslau. 1773 he was awarded with Papal Order of the Golden Spur and knighted by the Emperor.
Around 1790 Dittersdorf was Kapellmeister of the orchestra of the Duke Carl Christian Erdmann von
Wuerttemberg-Oels in Lower Silesia.
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf was a prolific composer of Viennese Classicism. He wrote about 130 symphonies, 150 pieces of chamber music, concertos, oratorios, masses, and 32 operas and musical comedies, for which he partially also wrote the librettos. Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf died on 24 October 1799 in Neuhof / Bohemia. In November 2014, his birthday comes up for the 275th time. More composer can be found in the members only section |