An Allegro by Carl Ditters Von Dittersdorf

in size and scope, the Allegro from Dittersdorf’s sixth string quintet far surpasses the movements presented in previous chapters. More notes are played in its first eight bars than in all of the Somas minuet in chapter 5. Yet Dittersdorf’s writing is still largely grounded in the Italian gallant. It was his “mother tongue,” taught to him from about age twelve by Giuseppe Bonn (1711–1788), who had been sent to Naples by Charles VI to study with Durante and Leo. So Dittersdorf, like Haydn, was a direct product of what the French came to describe as l’école d’Italie1—the Italian School.

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