Dittersdorf: Symphonies in D Major, A Major and E-Flat Major

Featuring

Álvaro Cassuto
Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf

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Performer Biography

Álvaro Cassuto, the conductor, is Portugal's foremost conductor, having held Music Director positions with several orchestras and guest conducted many leading ensembles worldwide.

Performer Biography

The Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra, founded in 1992, combines music performance with teaching in its associated Academy and Conservatory.

Composer Biography

Carl Ditters, later Baron von Dittersdorf, was a prolific and versatile contemporary of Haydn and Mozart in Vienna.

Composer Biography

Dittersdorf was granted a certificate of nobility by Empress Maria Theresia in 1772, after which he adopted the surname 'von Dittersdorf'.

Historical Context

In his later years, Dittersdorf was crippled with arthritis and financially struggling, appealing in his memoirs for people to buy his book to support his family.

Compositional Technique

Dittersdorf's symphonies, numbering well over one hundred, are noted for their extraordinary range of styles and musical structures.

Composer Biography

Dittersdorf's autobiography, dictated to his son and completed two days before his death, is a rich source of information on music and musicians of his period.