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Simon Sechter

1788 - 1867

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Simon Sechter (11 October 1788 – 10 September 1867) was an Austrian music theorist, teacher, organist, conductor and composer. He was one of the most prolific composers who ever lived, although his music is largely forgotten and he is now mainly remembered as a strict music teacher, most notably of Anton Bruckner. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Simon Sechter has received more than 69,151 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Simon Sechter is the 838th most popular composer (down from 795th in 2019), the 408th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 356th in 2019) and the 40th most popular Czech Composer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.49

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.07

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Simon Sechter ranks 838 out of 1,451. Before her are Muslim Magomayev, Princess Amalie of Saxony, Salvatore Sciarrino, Nikos Skalkottas, George Crumb, and Ramin Djawadi. After her are André Caplet, André Cardinal Destouches, Edward MacDowell, Franz Anton Hoffmeister, Stanley Myers, and Charles Villiers Stanford.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1788, Simon Sechter ranks 41. Before her are Mohammed bin Thani, Franz Pforr, Juraj Haulik, Francisco Balagtas, Tomás de Zumalacárregui, and Athanasios Diakos. After her are Sarah Goodridge, Spyridon Trikoupis, Princess Juliane Sophie of Denmark, Edward Sabine, Kikuchi Yōsai, and Margaret Taylor. Among people deceased in 1867, Simon Sechter ranks 37. Before her are Armand Trousseau, Mohammad Afzal Khan, Jean Pierre Flourens, Prince William of Hesse-Kassel, Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied, and Jacques Ignace Hittorff. After her are Ramón Castilla, Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac, Ignatius Brianchaninov, Georgi Sava Rakovski, Benoît Fourneyron, and Alexander Petrov.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Simon Sechter ranks 408 out of 1,200. Before her are Zdeněk Fierlinger (1891), Karel Kryl (1944), Viktor Dyk (1877), Vladislav Vančura (1891), Charlotte of Schaumburg-Lippe (1864), and Jiří Dienstbier (1937). After her are Lubor Niederle (1865), Eugen Sänger (1905), Oldřich Černík (1921), Franz von Soxhlet (1848), Jan Werich (1906), and Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský (1684).

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Among COMPOSERS In Czechia

Among composers born in Czechia, Simon Sechter ranks 40. Before her are Paul Wranitzky (1756), Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer (1656), Franz Krommer (1759), Oskar Nedbal (1874), Jan Václav Voříšek (1791), and Adalbert Gyrowetz (1763). After her are Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský (1684), Vítězslava Kaprálová (1915), Antonín Vranický (1761), Leo Fall (1873), Václav Tomášek (1774), and Anton Stamitz (1750).

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