Can it be another pun?

[Ya Sam]

I do know that Ditters is his name, it's just the similarity between 
'Ditters'  and 'ditties' suggesting that Pynchon used his name to create a 
play on words.


>From: bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
>To: "Ya Sam" <takoitov at hotmail.com>, pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: Can it be another pun?
>Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 08:02:02 -0800
>
>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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