Release Date: 12 January 1999
Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 730099436922
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: DITTERSDORF
Description
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739 - 1799) Symphonies after Ovid's Metamorphoses (Sinfonien nach Ovids Metamorphosen) Vol. II Sinfonia No.4 in F major, Die Rettung derAndromeda durch Perseus (The Rescue of Andromedaby Perseus) Sinfonia No.5 in A major, Verwandlung derlykischen Bauern in Frosche (Transformation of the LycianPeasants into Frogs) Sinfonia No.6 in D major, DieVersteinerung des Phineus und seiner Freunde (The Turning toStone of Phineus and His Friends) In theautobiography dictated to his son Carl Ditters gives a brief account of hisparentage. He was born in Vienna in 1739, the son of acostume-maker employed at the court theatre under Charles the Sixth, a man whoalso served as a first lieutenant in the citizen's artillery and took part inthe wars that followed the death of that ruler. He had a good general educationand in 1751 joined the musical establishment of the Prince of Sachsen-Hildburghausen,where he was able to undertake a more concentrated study of music, with compositionlessons from Giuseppe Bonno. The Prince left Vienna in 1761 anddisbanded his musical establishment, finding a position for Ditters and some ofhis colleagues under Count Durazzo in the court opera and orchestra. Thisbrought a close acquaintance with dramatic music, not least through Gluck, withwhom he travelled to Italy in 1763, making an impression himself asa violinist and meeting Italian musicians of distinction, including PadreMartini and the castrato Farinelli. In 1764 CountDurazzo resigned his position, compelled to do so by the hostile Iintrigues of Reutterand others associated with the court, and was appointed ambassador to Venice, a positionhe held for some twenty years. Ditters found difficulty in working under Durazzo'ssuccessor and resigned in order to take up an appointment as Kapellmeister tothe Bishop of Grosswardein, where he succeeded Michael Haydn, younger brotherof Joseph Haydn. When the musical establishment was disbanded in 1769, he foundemployment as Kapellmeister to the Prince-Bishop of Breslau, Count Schaffgotsch,at Johannisberg, coupling this position with that of Forstmeister (forestrysuperintendent) in the Neisse region. In 1773 he was ennobled by the Ernpress,taking the additional title of von Dittersdorf. This enabled him to become Amtshauptmann,chief official, of Freiwaldau, retaining this position and his work at Johannisbergin spite of an apparent suggestion that he become court composer in Vienna, insuccession to Gassmann, who had died in 1774. The war of the Bavariansuccession brought difficulties for his patron and consequently forDittersdorf, who spent the years after the Prince-Bishop's death in 1795 in retirement.He had been able, in 1793, to provide aseries of Singspiel for Friedrich-Augustof Brunswick-als, continuing a form of composition in which he had long beendistinguished, but which were now impossible at Johannisberg. He died in 1799at Neuhof in Bohernia, where he had settled at t
Tracklisting
Dariia Lytvishko
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Marin Alsop
Alice Di Piazza; Basel Sinfonietta; NDR Bigband; Titus Engel
Anna Alas i Jove; Miquel Villalba
David Childs; Black Dyke Band; Nicholas Childs
Various
Various
Lully
