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1RICHTER
3has passed through three editions, and Vom Contrapunct through two. The English translations of all these are by Franklin Taylor, and were published by Cramer & Co. in 1864, 1878, and 1874 respectively. Richter also published a Catechism of Organ-building. Of his many compositions de circonstance the best known is the Cantata 'Dithyrambe,' for the Schiller Festival in 1859. Other works are—an oratorio, 'Christus der Erlöser' (March 8, 1849), masses, psalms, motets, organ-pieces, string-quartets, and sonatas for PF. He became one of the King's Professors in 1868, died at Leipzig, April 9, 1879, and was succeeded as Cantor by W. Rust.
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7RICHTER, FERDINAND TOBIAS, a native of Würzburg, the date of whose birth is given as 1649, succeeded Alessandro Poglietti as Imperial Court organist at Vienna in 1688. In the Quellen-Lexikon he is wrongly said to have been the teacher in composition of the Emperor Leopold I., but he was undoubtedly music teacher to Leopold's children, the future Emperor Joseph I., and the three Archduchesses. Richter enjoyed a high reputation as organ-player and composer. Several even of Pachelbel's pupils at Nuremberg came afterwards to Vienna to perfect themselves in organ-playing by further instructions from Richter, and Pachelbel himself must have held Richter in high esteem, since in 1699 he dedicated to him along with Buxtehude his organ or clavier work entitled 'Hexachordum Apollinis.' It is all the more remarkable that so few organ works of Richter have been preserved. In a recent volume of the Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Oesterreich (Jahrg. xiii. Th. 2) three clavier suites out of a set of five, and an organ toccata with short fugued Versetti out of a set of five on the church tones intended for liturgical use, have been printed for the first time, but hardly suffice to explain his great reputation. The Imperial Library at Vienna preserves in MS. two serenatas by Richter evidently intended for court festivities, 'L' Istro ossequioso,' and 'Le promesse degli Dei;' also five spiritual dramas composed for performance by the pupils of the Jesuit college at Vienna. There are also some instrumental works, a sonata a 7 (described as for two Trombe, one Timpano, two violini, two viole da braccio e cembalo), along with some Balletti a 4 and a 5, also two Sonatas a 8. Richter died at Vienna in 1711.
9J. R. M.
11RICHTER, FRANZ XAVER, was born at Höllischau in Moravia on Dec. 1 or 31,1 1709. His first official post was that of capellmeister to the Abbot of Kempten, which he held from 1740 until 1750, when difficulties appear to have arisen with the authorities as the result of his duplication of posts. He had been a bass-singer at the court of Mannheim since 1747, and no doubt this was the cause of his dismissal from Kempten. He is stated by F. Walter, Geschichte des Theaters, etc. (1898), to have appeared in operatic performances in 1748 and 1749. He was also engaged as leader of the second violins in the orchestra. An oratorio, 'La deposizione della croce,' was performed at Mannheim in 1748. He left Mannheim for Strasburg in 1769, becoming capellmeister at the Minster, and spending the remainder of his life there. He died Sept. 12, 1789, and was succeeded by Ignaz Pleyel, who, according to Fétis, had acted as his assistant for six years. Burney, in his Present State (Germany), ii. 327, speaks of the great reputation Richter enjoyed, and of the want of real individuality in his music. He speaks of his frequent employment of the device called ROSALIA. He left sixty-four symphonies, of which the themes of sixty-two are given in the volume devoted to the Mannheim school of symphonists in the Denkm. der Tonk. in Bayern, vol. iii. 1. Three of the symphonies are printed in full, and the preface contains a detailed account of the composer. An enormous mass of church music is ascribed to him in Riemann's Lexikon, such as twenty-eight masses, two requiems, sixteen psalms, thirty-eight motets, etc. The Quellen-Lexikon gives a more limited list of extant works, and contains many doubtful statements concerning the composer.
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15RICHTER, HANS, celebrated conductor, born April 4, 1843, at Raab in Hungary, where his father was capellmeister of the cathedral. His mother, née Josephine Czazinsky, sang the part of Venus in 'Tannhäuser' at the first performance in Vienna in 1857; she was afterwards a very successful teacher of singing in Vienna, and died Oct. 20, 1892. The father died in 1853, and Hans was then placed at the Löwenburg Convict-School in Vienna. Thence he went into the choir of the Court chapel, and remained there for four years. In 1860 he entered the Conservatorium, and studied the horn under Kleinecke, the violin under Heissler, and theory under Sechter. After a lengthened engagement as horn-player in the orchestra of the Kärnthnerthor opera he was recommended by Esser to Wagner, went to him at Lucerne, remained there from Oct. 1866 to Dec. 1867, and made the first fair copy of the score of the 'Meistersinger.' In 1868 he accepted the post of conductor at the Hof- und National Theatre, Munich, and remained there for a year. He next visited Paris, and after a short residence there, proceeded to Brussels for the production of 'Lohengrin' (March 22, 1870). He then returned to Wagner at Lucerne, assisted at the first performance of the 'Siegfried Idyll' (Dec. 1870), and made the fair copy of the score of the 'Nibelungen Ring' for the engraver. In April 1871 he went to Pesth as chief conductor of the National Theatre, a post to which he owes
171 Gerber's Lexikon, followed by Riemann, in his Lexikon, and in his preface to the Denkm. volume containing works by Richter, gives Dec. 1 as the date of birth; Eitner's Quellen-Lexikon follows Lobstein's Bettidge, etc., in giving Dec. 31 as the date.
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