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Franz Xaver Richter

1709 - 1789

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Franz (Czech: František) Xaver Richter, known as François Xavier Richter in France (December 1, 1709 – September 12, 1789) was an Austro-Moravian singer, violinist, composer, conductor and music theoretician who spent most of his life first in Austria and later in Mannheim and in Strasbourg, where he was music director of the cathedral. From 1783 on, Haydn's favourite pupil, Ignaz Pleyel, was his deputy director. The most traditional of the first-generation composers of the so-called Mannheim school, he was highly regarded in his day as a contrapuntist. As a composer he was equally at home in the concerto and the "strict church style". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Franz Xaver Richter is the 532nd most popular composer (up from 594th in 2019), the 247th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 272nd in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Czech Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Franz Xaver Richter ranks 532 out of 1,451. Before him are Einojuhani Rautavaara, Orlando Gibbons, David Rose, Frederick Delius, Pancho Vladigerov, and Remo Giazotto. After him are Erwin Schulhoff, Terry Riley, Albert Ketèlbey, Michael Kamen, Vasily Kalinnikov, and Gara Garayev.

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Among people born in 1709, Franz Xaver Richter ranks 14. Before him are Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, Gabriel Bonnot de Mably, Johann Georg Gmelin, Andreas Sigismund Marggraf, Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans, and Tokugawa Ietsugu. After him are Charles de Brosses, Étienne de Silhouette, Giovanni Domenico Maraldi, Ernst Ludwig II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Alexei Razumovsky, and John Cleland. Among people deceased in 1789, Franz Xaver Richter ranks 10. Before him are Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, Claude Joseph Vernet, Jean-Étienne Liotard, Ethan Allen, Charles-Michel de l'Épée, and Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay. After him are Petrus Camper, Thomas Nelson Jr., Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, Paolo Renier, and Jafar Khan.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Franz Xaver Richter ranks 247 out of 1,200. Before him are Václav Neumann (1920), Zdeněk Zeman (1947), Bretislav II (1100), Jan Stráský (1940), Silvia Saint (1976), and Vladimír Menšík (1929). After him are Erwin Schulhoff (1894), Alois Lexa von Aehrenthal (1854), Petr Ginz (1928), Johannes Widmann (1460), Vilém Mathesius (1882), and Antonín Mrkos (1918).

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Among COMPOSERS In Czechia

Among composers born in Czechia, Franz Xaver Richter ranks 22. Before him are Georg Benda (1722), Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760), Ignaz Moscheles (1794), Zdeněk Fibich (1850), Leopold Koželuch (1747), and Vítězslav Novák (1870). After him are Erwin Schulhoff (1894), Karel Svoboda (1938), Florian Leopold Gassmann (1729), Pavel Haas (1899), Alois Hába (1893), and František Brixi (1732).

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