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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 89,971 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Franz Xaver Richter is the 594th most popular composer (down from 486th in 2019), the 272nd most popular biography from Czechia (down from 222nd in 2019) and the 25th most popular Czech Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Franz Xaver Richter ranks 594 out of 1,451. Before him are Johann Ludwig Krebs, Leo Brouwer, Johann David Heinichen, Leopold Koželuch, François Devienne, and Zbigniew Preisner. After him are Basil Poledouris, Alexander Arutiunian, Reinhard Keiser, Luis de Milán, Peter Sculthorpe, and Isabella Leonarda.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1709, Franz Xaver Richter ranks 16. Before him are Georg Wilhelm Steller, Andreas Sigismund Marggraf, Tokugawa Ietsugu, Alexei Razumovsky, Charles de Brosses, and Johann Georg Gmelin. After him are Étienne de Silhouette, Giovanni Domenico Maraldi, John Cleland, Francesco Araja, Antonio Rinaldi, and Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset. Among people deceased in 1789, Franz Xaver Richter ranks 10. Before him are Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, Claude Joseph Vernet, Ethan Allen, Jean-Étienne Liotard, Charles-Michel de l'Épée, and Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay. After him are Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, Paolo Renier, Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, Petrus Camper, John Cleland, and Jakob II Bernoulli.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Franz Xaver Richter ranks 272 out of 1,200. Before him are Lubomír Štrougal (1924), Svatopluk, Duke of Bohemia (1100), Joseph Wenzel I, Prince of Liechtenstein (1696), Rudolf Weigl (1883), Johann Radon (1887), and Leopold Koželuch (1747). After him are Soběslav I, Duke of Bohemia (1075), Dominik Duka (1943), Václav Vorlíček (1930), Alois Jirásek (1851), Judith of Bohemia (1056), and Alois Hába (1893).

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Among COMPOSERS In Czechia

Among composers born in Czechia, Franz Xaver Richter ranks 25. Before him are Vítězslav Novák (1870), Zdeněk Fibich (1850), Karel Svoboda (1938), Erwin Schulhoff (1894), Pavel Haas (1899), and Leopold Koželuch (1747). After him are Alois Hába (1893), Anton Schindler (1795), Otakar Ševčík (1852), Johann Joseph Abert (1832), Josef Bohuslav Foerster (1859), and Florian Leopold Gassmann (1729).

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