Simon Sechter

Simon Sechter ( born October 11, 1788 in Friedberg, Bohemia; † 10 September 1867 in Vienna ) was an Austrian music theorist, music teacher, organist, conductor and composer.

Life

He came to Vienna in 1804 to study with Antonio Salieri. In 1824 he took over the post of organist of Vorisek. From 1810 he taught piano and singing at a school for the blind. In 1828 he had already terminally ill Franz Schubert as a counterpoint students. Sechter 1851 was appointed professor of composition at the Conservatory of the Society of Friends of Music, where he followed his former student, Anton Bruckner in application of the learned with Sechter teaching methods. Since Sechter spent more money in his last years, when he earned, he died at 78 years in great poverty. He is on the Vienna Central Cemetery (Group 0, number 1, number 23) buried in a grave of honor. 1894 Sechtergasse facility in Vienna was named after him.

Importance

Sechter had strict teaching methods. So he forbade Anton Bruckner, for example, to write original compositions, while he learned counterpoint with him. The composer and Bruckner expert Robert Simpson believed that " Sechter unconsciously pulled out Bruckner's originality by having them suppressed until it ceased to be longer." Sechter taught Bruckner 1855-1861 by mail and regarded him as his best student. In Bruckner's degree Sechter dedicated to him a joint.

In The principles of musical composition, his three-volume treatise on composition principles from the years 1853 and 1854, Sechter wrote a work with great influence on many later theorists. Sechter thoughts are derived from Jean -Philippe Rameau's theory of the basso continuo ( stage theory ), always diatonic, even if the guide is hochchromatisch. Sechter propagated the pure opposite of the well- tempered tuning.

Sechter was also a composer, and it is known that he wrote more than 8,000 works, including on 9 November 1849 to April 1867, a musical diary 4000 with compositions mostly joints - when it came, every day. Constantin von Wurzbach writes about Sechter estate: " But besides still are at 30 volumes piano, organ, and vocal music before, along with six operas, among whom Grillparzer 's Melusine '. - The compositions date back to 1810 's and 1811; these are the earliest gemüthliche, German '. A band from the years 1818 and 1819 contains a collection of German folk tunes ', the Sechter edited my great fondness contrapunctisch. The 1833 provides a singular work, an example of tough endurance, but produce from stupendous skills. The task was: 104 Variations on a Theme by 104 Tacten. This self-flagellation had the man for but have become embarrassing himself at the end, because the last variation on 27 October closes with the exclamation: , thank God ' "

In addition, he composed masses and oratorios, but published only his organ and piano pieces, as well as two string quartets ( including The Four Temperaments, opus 6) - together 91 pieces - in press.

Student

His students included in addition to the mentioned below: the Prince George and Constantine Czartoryski, Fedrigotti, Theodor Dohler, Karl Ferdinand Pohl, Otto Bach, Derffl, Carl Filtsch, Hoven, Selmar Bagge, Leopold Bibl, Julius Benoni, Eugenio Galli and Franz Grillparzer.

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