Dittersdorf autobiography
The Autobiography of Karl von Dittersdorf
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By Karl von Dittersdorf
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This autobiography of the famous Austrian composer, violinist and silvologist Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf was dictated from his death-bed, completed only two days before the artist’s death on 24 October First published in , it represents a valuable as the record of an artist’s every-day life at the close of the 18th century.
“Dittersdorf, the honest chronicler of his own failures and successes, should have his say in England as well as in Germany.
If not ornate, he is true. Haydn’s imaginary talk, as given in George Sand’s ‘Consuelo,’ is hard to reconcile with the language of Haydn’s Diary. In this plain-spoken little volume we hear the very words uttered by men of genius, not those coined for them by others.”—A. D. Coleridge, Preface
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PublisherMuriwai Books
Release dateFeb 27,
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Karl von Dittersdorf
CARL DITTERS VON DITTERSDORF (2 November - 24 October ) was an Austrian composer, violinist and silvologist.
Dittersdorf autobiography He leaves his hearer out of breath ; for hardly has he grasped one beautiful thought, when another of greater fascination dispels the first, and this goes on throughout, so that in the end it is impossible to retain any one of these beautiful melodies. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Page - I had practised some years before. We had been told all sorts of things about Italian orchestras, but Gluck was not in the least satisfied with them.Born in the Laimgrube (now Mariahilf) district of Vienna, Austria as August Carl Ditters, his father was a military tailor in the Austrian Imperial Army of Charles VI. Educated at a Jesuit school, in the six-year-old August Karl was introduced to the violin and began receiving private tutelage in music, violin, French and religion.
In , Ditters assumed the post of Kapellmeister at the court of Ádám Patachich, Hungarian nobleman and Bishop of Nagyvárad (Romania). In he became Hofkomponist (court composer) at the Château Jánský vrch (Johannesberg) in Javorník (today part of the Czech Republic) where he wrote symphonies, string quartets and other chamber music, and opere buffe over the next 20 years.
In the prince-bishop appointed him Amtshauptmann of nearby Jeseník (Freiwaldau), and he was sent to Vienna and given the noble title of von Dittersdorf. In , he was invited by Baron Ignaz von Stillfried to live at the Červená Lhota in southern Bohemia; there he spent his final decade overseeing operatic productions, and compiling and editing his own music for publication.
Dittersdorf autobiography examples We had been told all sorts of things about Italian orchestras, but Gluck was not in the least satisfied with them. Page - Her mother, a bright, cheery lady of some fifty years of age, as outspoken as her daughter,. Page - Inside is an icon of the Madonna said to have been painted by St. Want more?He died in and was buried in the town of Deštná. ARTHUR DUKE COLERIDGE (1 February - 29 October ) was a 19th-century English lawyer who, as an amateur musician with influential connections, was the founder of The Bach Choir in , the UK version of the Mendelssohn Scholarship, and introduced the Mass in B minor by Johann Sebastian Bach to the English concert repertoire.
Born at Ottery St Mary, Devon and educated at Eton College, his connections with German music also led him to translate German works such as Heinrich Kreissle von Hellborn’s biography of composer Franz Schubert and the Goethe play Egmont, which inspired one of Beethoven’s popular overtures. Coleridge died at South Kensington, London in