Composer

‘The greatest composer known to me, either in person, or by reputation.’ Joseph Haydn never stopped admiring his younger friend Mozart: but the pair shared many musical friendships, and one day in Vienna in 1784 they came together with two of the finest composers of the age for one of the most extraordinary musical gatherings of all time.

Viennese Virtuosity: symphonies by Mozart, Haydn & friends

University of Cambridge

The music at this concert is "real" Viennese classics". Vienna was Europe's musical stronghold and melting pot in the latter part of the 18th century. Here, a new musical style emerged that, compared to the Italian Baroque and Rococo of the past, was less elaborate and more simple and expressive. All the music we know and practice today as "classical music" has its roots there.

Mozart With A Dispute

Southern Danish Conservatory of Music

EPSG:4326

Taylor Abbitt, Double Bass

The Juilliard School

Dame Jane Glover takes the podium for a joyful evening of music written centuries ago by four friends in Vienna—and performed today by good friends in Chicago. Music of the Baroque’s principal players become the soloists in two intimate sinfonie concertanti by Haydn and Dittersdorf. A symphony by Vanhal and Mozart’s Symphony No. 34 in C Major complete the circles.

Circle of Friends

Harris Theater

Concert 4

KUMC Student Center

Doctor Krautmann and Stössel, the pharmacist, are deadly enemies. That their children have fallen in love, doesn’t help matters at all ...

These fathers are German counterparts to Cimarosa and Rossini’s funny old men, who steal the show with wit and situation comedy. Even more so than Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Dittersdorf’s Doctor and Pharmacist marks an important turning point in the history in German opera-cum-plays. It resulted in three further commissions for von Dittersdorf, who’s all but forgotten today. This composer, violin virtuoso and contemporary of Mozart was internationally admired, not just in Viennese circles. He combined elements of north German Singspiel in his works with the tradition, wit and vocal virtuosity of Italian opera seria and buffa. He composed light-hearted music which, married to his hearty sense of humour, went down well with audiences. This, his best known work, was commissioned by the Emperor and the manager of the Burgtheater in Vienna, the librettist Johann Gottlieb Stephanie.

Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf

Composer

Events

Upcoming events

Feb 15, 2025

Concert 4 · Kansas City Medical Arts Symphony

Mar 8, 2025

Doctor & Pharmacist · Oper Frankfurt

Mar 23, 2025

Chamber Music Concert VII · Oper Frankfurt

Past events

Nov 30, 2024

Viennese Virtuosity: symphonies by Mozart, Haydn & friends · Academy of Ancient Music

Nov 1, 2024

Mozart With A Dispute · Esbjerg Ensemble

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