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RICHTER RICHTER 93
has passed through three editions, and Vom
Cmitrapmict through two. The English translations
of all these are by Franklin Taylor, and
were published by Cramer & Co. in 1864,
1878, and 1874 respectively. Eichter also
published a, Catechism of Orga/n-iuilding. 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 ' Erloser ' (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. Kust. r. G.
RICHTER, Ferdinand Tobias, a native of
Wiirzburg, the date of whose birth is given as
1649, succeeded Alessandro Poglietti as Imperial
Court organist at Vienna in 1683. 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 orgafl-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 Eichter, and Pachelbel himself
must have held Eichter in high esteem,
since in 1699 he dedicated to him along with
Buxtehude his organ or clavier work entitled
'Hexachordum ApoUinis.' It is all the more
remarkable that so few organ works of Eichter
have been preserved. In a recent volume of
the Denkmaler der Tonkunst in Oesterreich
(Jahrg. xiii. Th. 2) three clavier suites out of
a set of five, and an organ toccata with short
fiigued 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 Eichter 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 i and a 5, also two Sonatas a 8. Eichter died
at Vienna in 1711. j. R. M.
EICHTEE, Franz Xavek, was born at Hbllischau
in Moravia on Dec. 1 or 31, > 1709. His
first official post was that of capellmeister to the
Abbot of Kempten, which he held from 1740
until 1750, whendifiiculties appearto have arisen
with the authorities as the result of his duplication
of posts. He had been a bass-singer at
» Gerber'B Ltxikon, foUowed by Biemann, in his Lexikon, and in
his preface to the Denitm. volume containing worlcB by Jlichter,
givea Dee. -1 as the date of birth : Eitner's Quellen-Lixdkon follows
Lobstein's Beitrdge, etc., in giving Dec. 31 as the date.
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 Stiasburg 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 Fetis, had acted
as his assistant for six years. Burney, in his
Present State (Germany), ii. 327, speaks of the
great reputation Eichter enjoyed, and of the
want of real individuality in his music. He
speaks of his frequent employment of the
device called Eosalia. 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
Tank, in Bayem, 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 Eiemann's Lexikon, such as twentyeight
masses, two requiems, sixteen psalms,
thirty-eight motets, etc. The Quellcn-Lemkon
gives a more limited list of extant works, and
contains many doubtfal statements concerning
the composer. M.
EICHTEE, Hans, celebrated conductor, born
April 4, 1843, at Eaab in Hungary, where his
father was capellmeister of the cathedral. His
mother, n(e Josephine Csazinsky, sang the part
of Venus in 'Tannhauser' at the first performance
in Vienna in 1857 ; she was aftenvards 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 Lowenburg
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 Seohter. After a lengthened engagemenj;
as horn-player in the orchestra of the Kamthnerthor
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
18 68 he accepted thepostof conductorat theHofund
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 Eing ' for the engraver.
InAprill871 he went to Pesth as chief conductor
of the National Theatre, a post to which he owes