Ernst Friedrich Eduard Richter ( German: Ernst Friedrich Eduard Richter ; October 24, 1808 , Grossschenau - April 9, 1879 , Leipzig ) - German composer, musicologist and music teacher.
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| Professions | organist , choral conductor , composer , musicologist , music teacher |
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Biography
Ernst Friedrich Eduard Richter studied law first, and then music in Zittau and Leipzig. In 1843 , along with Felix Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann , he became one of the first six professors of the newly created Leipzig Conservatory (he taught harmony and counterpoint ). Among Richter's students, in particular, Eugene Albrecht , Fedor Begrov , Ivan Knorr , Hugo Riemann , Mikhail Santis , Salomon Yadasson , James Kvast , Ukrainian composer Nikolai Lysenko . He is the author of textbooks on harmony ( 1853 ), fugue ( 1859 ) and counterpoint ( 1872 ), which were popular in the 19th century but criticized by Arnold Schoenberg ( 1911 ).
From 1851 , he was an organist in various Leipzig churches, until in 1868 , after the death of Moritz Hauptmann , he became cantor in the famous Boys Choir at the St. Thomas School of Leipzig , consecrated by Johann Sebastian Bach staying on it in the first half of the 18th century. Author of motets, masses, songs.
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- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ 1 2 International Music Score Library Project - 2006.
- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 116510927 // General Normative Control (GND) - 2012—2016.
Literature
- Richter, Ernst Friedrich Eduard // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.