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Simon Sechter
12+ albums
19th centuryaustrianclassical periodromantic period
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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. Carl Christian Müller (1831–1914)compiled and adapted Sechter's Die richtige Folge der Grundharmonien as The Correct Order of Fundamental Harmonies: A Treatise on Fundamental Basses, and their Inversions and Substitutes (Wm. A. Pond, 1871; G. Schirmer, 1898) Sechter was born in Friedberg (Frymburk), Bohemia, then part of the Austrian Empire, and moved to Vienna in 1804, succeeding Jan Václav Voříšek as court organist there in 1824. In 1810 he began teaching piano and voice at an academy for blind students. In 1828 the ailing Franz Schubert had one counterpoint lesson with him. In 1851 Sechter was appointed professor of composition at the Vienna Conservatory. He died in poverty.[citation needed] He was succeeded at the Conservatory by Anton Bruckner, a former student whose teaching methods were based on Sechter's. Others whom Sechter taught include Henri Vieuxtemps, Franz Lachner, Eduard Marxsen (who taught Johannes Brahms piano and counterpoint), Johann Nepomuk Fuchs, Gustav Nottebohm, Anton Door, Karl Umlauf, Béla Kéler and Sigismond Thalberg, Adolf von Henselt, Anton de Kontski, Kornelije Stanković and Theodor Döhler. Sechter had strict teaching methods. For i
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24 Fugues, Op. 53 (Excerpts Arr. for 2 Organs): No. 17, Theme from Mozart's "Don Juan"
142Sechter : 50 Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli : Variation 39
12324 Fugues, Op. 53 (Excerpts Arr. for 2 Organs): No. 16, Theme from Mozart's "Requiem"
124Bagatelle in C Minor, ISS 1 no. 1: Allegro
11550 Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli: Variation 39
96Bagatelle in C Minor, ISS 1 no. 2: Allegretto
97Bagatelle in D flat Major, ISS 1 no. 8: Cantabile
78Bagatelle in E Major, ISS 1 no. 3: Moderato
69Bagatelle in B Major, ISS 1 no. 5: Marcia
610Bagatelle in A flat Major, ISS 1 no. 7: Allegro
5albums
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Bagatellen
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50 Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli (1824)
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Variationen uber einen Walzer von Diabelli
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Bagatelle in C Minor, ISS 1 no. 1: Allegro
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Vaterländischer Künstlerverein
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50 Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli
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Songs by Schubert's Friends And Contemporaries II
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Mozart: Unfinished Great Mass
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Gute Nacht - Murray (voice), G. Johnson (piano)
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Songs by Schubert’s friends and contemporaries Volume 2
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Songs by Schubert’s Friends and Contemporaries
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