Ernst Christoph Dressler

Ernst Christoph Dressler
Portrait by Johann Heinrich Tischbein, 1780
Born	(1734-09-23)23 September 1734 Greußen, near Sondershausen
Died	6 April 1779(1779-04-06) (aged 44) Kassel
Education	University of Halle University of Jena University of Leipzig
Occupations	Operatic tenor Violinist Composer Music theorist

Ernst Christoph Dressler (23 September 1734 – 6 April 1779)^[1] was a German composer, operatic tenor, violinist and music theorist. He began his career as a self taught singer and violinist, but eventually received vocal training from the renowned Italian opera singer Maria Giustina Turcotti. He became a musician at several courts before he moved to the Court Opera in Vienna and finally to Kassel. He is known for a march on which Beethoven based his first published composition.