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Composer and violin virtuoso; born Carl Ditters.

Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf - Encyclopedia Britannica

Through service in Karl VI's army, his father had gained a position as costume designer in the imperial theater. In the boy Carl obtained a post as violinist in Vienna's Schottenkircheorchestra. Prince Joseph Friedrich von Sachsen-Hildburghausen noticed him and hired him for his court orchestra. There he studied violin with Francesco Trani and composition with Giuseppe Bonno; during this period he also became acquainted with Haydn and Gluck.

Dittersdorf, Karl Ditters von (original name, Karl Ditters)

In he was made violinist for the imperial court theater, and in he traveled to Bologna with Gluck.

After a salary dispute with the imperial theater in , Differs took a post as Kapellmeister for the court of Adam Patachich, Hungarian nobleman and Bishop of Grosswardein (Oradea, Romania). There he composed mostly church music and Schuldramen; he lost his job in when Empress Maria Theresa denounced the bishop.

The following year he met Schaff