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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Franz Xaver Richter has received more than 83,308 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Franz Xaver Richter is the 486th most popular composer (down from 481st in 2019), the 222nd most popular biography from Czechia (down from 212th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Czech Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Franz Xaver Richter ranks 486 out of 1,216. Before him are Carl Friedrich Zelter, Ferdinando Paer, Neville Marriner, Vítězslav Novák, Wilhelm Stenhammar, and Hans Pfitzner. After him are Reinhard Keiser, Robert Stolz, Danny Elfman, Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Luis Bacalov, and Karl Michael Ziehrer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1709, Franz Xaver Richter ranks 12. Before him are Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Georg Wilhelm Steller, Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, Franz Benda, Gabriel Bonnot de Mably, and Andreas Sigismund Marggraf. After him are Johann Georg Gmelin, Tokugawa Ietsugu, Alexei Razumovsky, Charles de Brosses, Giovanni Domenico Maraldi, and John Cleland. Among people deceased in 1789, Franz Xaver Richter ranks 8. Before him are Baron d'Holbach, Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France, Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, Claude Joseph Vernet, Ethan Allen, and Jean-Étienne Liotard. After him are Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay, Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, John Cleland, Paolo Renier, Petrus Camper, and Charles-Michel de l'Épée.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Franz Xaver Richter ranks 222 out of 973. Before him are Oldřich, Duke of Bohemia (970), Pavel Haas (1899), Karel Brückner (1939), Wojciech Żywny (1756), Toyen (1902), and Vítězslav Novák (1870). After him are Jan Saudek (1935), Miloš Jakeš (1922), Zdeněk Zeman (1947), Clement Mary Hofbauer (1751), Anna Chromý (1940), and Guido Adler (1855).

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Among COMPOSERS In Czechia

Among composers born in Czechia, Franz Xaver Richter ranks 24. Before him are Georg Benda (1722), Zdeněk Fibich (1850), Johann Baptist Wanhal (1739), Erwin Schulhoff (1894), Pavel Haas (1899), and Vítězslav Novák (1870). After him are Karel Svoboda (1938), Hans Krása (1899), Antonio Rosetti (1746), Leopold Koželuch (1747), Alois Hába (1893), and Otakar Ševčík (1852).

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