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Examples
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(Compare a Mozart recapitulation with a Dittersdorf one and you'll see what I mean.)
The Long Goodbye Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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The emperor with whom Dittersdorf discussed Mozart was not (as I absurdly claimed) Franz-Joseph, but Joseph II.
Friendly Corrections Rosen, Charles 1992
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"You are a real musician," he counter-flattered; "tonight, for ze f6rst time, ze Boccherini was good, alzo I still have trouble mit ze Mozart und ze Dittersdorf."
An Autobiography Peter, Ustinov 1977
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Ze Mozart vas a little better, and ze Dittersdorf superb.
An Autobiography Peter, Ustinov 1977
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Dittersdorf -- ripened into friendship, and led to Haydn's receiving violin lessons at this master's hands.
Story-Lives of Great Musicians Francis Jameson Rowbotham
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Dittersdorf, and Porpora, who may be said to have been his principal masters, although the credit of his remarkable achievements must be given rather to his own incessant industry than to any particular instruction.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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He met Gluck, who a little later was quite inaccessible to the most pushful of young men; also Dittersdorf and Wagenseil, who, whatever we may think of them, were very high and unapproachable musicians in their time.
Haydn Runciman, John F 1908
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Haydn and Dittersdorf were strolling down a back street when they heard a fiddler scraping away in a little beer cellar.
Joseph Haydn Hadden, J Cuthbert 1902
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There were Dittersdorf and Albrechtsberger, and Dr. Leopold von Genzinger, the prince's physician, and Frau von Genzinger, whose tea and coffee he so much appreciated, and who sent him such excellent cream.
Joseph Haydn Hadden, J Cuthbert 1902
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Dittersdorf shrewdly replied by asking the emperor in his turn to draw a parallel between Gellert and Klopstock; whereupon Joseph made answer by saying that both were great poets, but that Klopstock's works required attentive study, while Gellert's beauties were open to the first glance.
Joseph Haydn Hadden, J Cuthbert 1902
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