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I've tagged these, but I've also noticed that our page says "6" symphonies, as does some recordings, Grove Music lists "3 simphonies, exprimant 3 métamorphoses d'Ovide (Vienna, 1791) [Vienna]" on their works page, but on their article page it says "He also enjoyed financial success with his 12 symphonies based on Ovid's Metamorphoses . . .".

In the interests of accuracy on the work page, how many of these were there?????

Dittersdorf’s œuvre apparently contains in the vicinity of 120 symphonies, of which only about a third were published under opus numbers – so it seems quite possible for there to be a publication of 3 Ovid symphonies in Vienna in 1791, and another 3, or 6, or 9 symphonies unpublished, or disseminated through individual manuscripts.

I’ve personally seen plenty of citations for six Ovid symphonies; I’d go with that until we can clearly establish twelve, since there only seems to be the single citation for that (albeit a usually reliable one, in Grove).

Cheers PML

Okay, I'll leave it, and if anyone has any more info, please let us know!

My understanding is that there were twelve symphonies of which six survive in their original form. The other six only exist in piano duet arrangements by Dittersdorf.