RICHTER, ERNST FRIEDRICH EDUARD (18081879)
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RICHTER, ERNST FRIEDRICH EDUARD (18081879) , German musical theorist, was born at Grosschonau in Saxony , on the 24th of October 18o8. He first studied music at Zittau, and afterwards at Leipzig , where he attained so high a reputation that in 1843 he was appointed professor of harmony and counter-point at the conservatorium of music, then newly founded by Mendelssohn. On the death of Hauptmann on the 3rd of January r868, he was elected cantor of the Thomasschule, which office See Also: - OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
he retained until his death on the 9th of April 1899. He is best known by three theoretical worksLehrbuch der Harmonie, Lehre vom Contrapunct and Lehre von der Fugevaluable textbooks known to English students through the excellent translation by Franklin Taylor See Also: - TAYLOR
- TAYLOR, ANN (1782-1866)
- TAYLOR, BAYARD (1825–1878)
- TAYLOR, BROOK (1685–1731)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1787-1865)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1829-1901)
- TAYLOR, JEREMY (1613-1667)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (158o-1653)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (1704-1766)
- TAYLOR, JOSEPH (c. 1586-c. 1653)
- TAYLOR, MICHAEL ANGELO (1757–1834)
- TAYLOR, NATHANIEL WILLIAM (1786-1858)
- TAYLOR, PHILIP MEADOWS (1808–1876)
- TAYLOR, ROWLAND (d. 1555)
- TAYLOR, SIR HENRY (1800-1886)
- TAYLOR, THOMAS (1758-1835)
- TAYLOR, TOM (1817-1880)
- TAYLOR, WILLIAM (1765-1836)
- TAYLOR, ZACHARY (1784-1850)
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