Can it be another pun?

[bekah]

At 4:27 PM +0200 11/19/06, Ya Sam wrote:
>"her Reed shap'd and fitted, she has begun to punctuate her brother 
>Wicks's Tale, with scraps of Ditters von Dittersdorf"
>
>Like, scraps of ditties of Dittersdorf (Viennese composer)? Didn't 
>find it mentioned in the archives.


I think you are right again except that is not ditties - it's Ditters.


Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf lived from 1739 - 1799 and the 
Mason-Dixon line was surveyed between 1763 and 1767.

Carl Ditters (later Baron von Dittersdorf) :
http://www.artaria.com/SystemLink_Composer_6
Carl Ditters (later Baron von Dittersdorf) was one of the most 
prolific and versatile of the Viennese contemporaries of Haydn and 
Mozart. In his early professional career in Vienna, fascinatingly 
described in his autobiography (1799), Ditters was considered the 
leading violin virtuoso and performed regularly in concerts staged at 
the Burgtheater. His compositions were also attracting favourable 
notice and by the early 1760s he was regarded, along with Hofmann, 
Haydn and Vanhal, as one of the leading lights in Viennese music. 
Although most of his career was spent working outside Vienna, 
isolated and somewhat removed from the main stream, Ditters's 
reputation did not suffer. His instrumental music circulated widely 
and his vocal music, in particular his operas, operettas and 
Singspiels, enjoyed great popularity in Vienna and elsewhere. Through 
his patron's offices (Count Schaffgotsch, Prince-Bishop of Breslau) 
Ditters was created a Knight of the Golden Spur in 1770 and, two 
years later, was granted a certificate of nobility by the Empress 
Maria Theresia after which he adopted the additional surname 'von 
Dittersdorf'. After the Prince-Bishop's death in 1795 Dittersdorf 
received a small pension barely sufficient for his needs. Handicapped 
by arthritis and short of money, he was offered lodgings by Baron 
Ignaz von Stillfried on his property in Bohemia remaining there with 
his family until his death on 24 October 1799.


Bekah


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