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Dittersdorf

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[dit-erz-dawrf, dit-uhrs-dawrf] / ˈdɪt ərzˌdɔrf, ˈdɪt ərsˌdɔrf /

noun

  1. Karl Ditters von 1739–99, Austrian violinist and composer.


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Woodfield makes a convincing case that Dittersdorf organized a press campaign against Mozart’s allegedly artificial and overcomplicated creations.

From The New Yorker May 27, 2019

Furthermore, Dittersdorf went to the trouble of writing a German-language satirical opera entitled “The Marriage of Figaro,” in which the character of Cherubino becomes a caricature of Mozart: immature, flighty, vain, addicted to dancing.

From The New Yorker May 27, 2019

"It's a—bad minuet," replied Haydn, whereupon the enraged player turned upon him and would have broken his head with the fiddle had not Dittersdorf dragged him away.

From Haydn by Hadden, J. Cuthbert (James Cuthbert)

Nicolai's predecessors in Germany were Peter Ritter, 1794, and Dittersdorf, 1796.

From Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time by Krehbiel, Henry Edward

The analogy, Dittersdorf tells us, "pleased the emperor very much."

From Haydn by Hadden, J. Cuthbert (James Cuthbert)

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