Autobiography of Karl von Dittersdorf

This autobiography of the famous Austrian composer, violinist and silvologist Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf was dictated from his death-bed, completed only two days before the artist’s death on 24 October 1799. First published in 1896, it represents a valuable as the record of an artist’s every-day life at the close of the 18th century.

“Dittersdorf, the honest chronicler of his own failures and suc...