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Karl von Dittersdorf
CARL DITTERS VON DITTERSDORF (2 November 1739 - 24 October 1799) was an Austrian composer, violinist and silvologist.
Born in the Laimgrube (now Mariahilf) district of Vienna, Austria as August Ca...view moreCARL DITTERS VON DITTERSDORF (2 November 1739 - 24 October 1799) was an Austrian composer, violinist and silvologist.
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 1745 the six-year-old August Karl was introduced to the violin and began receiving private tutelage in music, violin, French and religion.
In 1764, Ditters assumed the post of Kapellmeister at the court of Ádám Patachich, Hungarian nobleman and Bishop of Nagyvárad (Romania). In 1771 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 1773 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 1794, 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.
He died in 1799 and was buried in the town of Deštná.
ARTHUR DUKE COLERIDGE (1 February 1830 - 29 October 1913) was a 19th-century English lawyer who, as an amateur musician with influential connections, was the founder of The Bach Choir in 1865, 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 1913.view less