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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 64,810 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Simon Sechter is the 796th most popular composer (down from 775th in 2019), the 356th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 343rd in 2019) and the 43rd most popular Czech Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Simon Sechter ranks 796 out of 1,216Before her are Nikos Skalkottas, Carlos Chávez, Johann Friedrich Reichardt, Emanuele d'Astorga, Sigismondo d'India, and Isaak Dunayevsky. After her are Eduard Artemyev, Johann Walter, Elfrida Andrée, Felice Anerio, Francesco Feo, and Augusta Holmès.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1788, Simon Sechter ranks 33Before her are FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, Duke Eugen of Württemberg, Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat, Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, Carl Sigismund Kunth, and Mohammed bin Thani. After her are Juraj Haulik, Rafael Urdaneta, Tomás de Zumalacárregui, Athanasios Diakos, Edward Sabine, and Princess Juliane Sophie of Denmark. Among people deceased in 1867, Simon Sechter ranks 36Before her are Miguel Miramón, Mirko Petrović-Njegoš, James Ferguson, Mohammad Afzal Khan, Jean Pierre Flourens, and Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied. After her are Juan Álvarez, Alexander Petrov, Ramón Castilla, Georgi Sava Rakovski, Benoît Fourneyron, and Ignatius Brianchaninov.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Simon Sechter ranks 356 out of 973Before her are Svatopluk Pluskal (1930), Lubor Niederle (1865), Franz von Soxhlet (1848), Zdeněk Burian (1905), Václav Talich (1883), and Ladislav Adamec (1926). After her are Rudolf Beran (1887), Moritz von Auffenberg (1852), Luděk Pachman (1924), Bohuslav Balbín (1621), Josef Beran (1888), and Josef Škvorecký (1924).

Among COMPOSERS In Czechia

Among composers born in Czechia, Simon Sechter ranks 43Before her are Oskar Nedbal (1874), František Brixi (1732), Leo Fall (1873), Franz Krommer (1759), Václav Tomášek (1774), and Jan Kalivoda (1801). After her are Jan Václav Voříšek (1791), Anton Stamitz (1750), Antonín Vranický (1761), Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský (1684), Ralph Benatzky (1884), and Vítězslava Kaprálová (1915).