Bob Draper wrote: >It's hard to judge for certain on such a small available discography >but I get the feeling that Dittersdorf was a composer who had ideas >but didn't have the techniques to put them into practice. > >Like all such composers every so often he came up with some something >good like the symphonies in question. Strange, I too give Dittersdorf mixed reviews, but a different mixture. I think his quartets are delightful. I can't say I've heard much else of his, but what I have heard, including some orchestral works that never left enough of an impression on me for me to identify now, I found dull and unimaginative, even though, remembering the quartets, I was initially prepared to like them. Walter Meyer