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Richter, Franz Xaver

(1709 - 1789)

The son of a soldier in the service of Count Franz Anton von Rottal, Franz Xaver Richter’s career as a musician seems to have started by his appointment as a bass singer in the Stuttgart Court Chapel in 1736. This was followed, after a short period in the service of a nobleman, by service as director musices to the Benedictine Ritterakademie at Ettal. In 1740 he became vice-Kapellmeister to the Prince Abbot Anselm von Reichlin-Meldegg at Kempten, later to be promoted to the position of Kapellmeister. In 1746 he moved to join the musical establishment of the Elector Palatine at Mannheim as a singer and then as a composer. He was able to travel on concert tours and in 1769 became Kapellmeister at Strasbourg Cathedral.

Choral Music
Richter’s sacred music includes oratorios, with liturgical settings that include 34 Masses.

Instrumental Music
Richter wrote a quantity of symphonies, quartets and sonatas. In the first, largely written for Mannheim, he avoids some of the conventions of the Mannheim style, leading the way towards the approaching Classical style of such works.

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Composer: Richter, Franz Xaver Period: Classical (1750-1830)

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Work Name	Category	Year Composed
Andante in F Major	Instrumental
De profundis clamavi	Choral - Sacred
Exsultate Deo	Choral - Sacred
Flute Concerto in D Major	Concerto
Flute Concerto in D Major*	Concerto	1965
Flute Concerto in E Minor	Concerto
Grande Symphony No. 7 in C Major	Orchestral
Harpsichord Concerto in E Minor	Concerto
La deposizione dalla croce	Choral - Sacred	1748
Messa de Requiem	Choral - Sacred
Oboe Concerto in F Major	Concerto
Oboe Concerto in G Minor	Concerto
Praeludium in C Major	Instrumental
Sinfonia a 4 in B-Flat Major	Orchestral	1740
Sinfonia a 4 in C Major, "La Melodia Germanica"	Orchestral	1750
Sinfonia a 4 in C Minor	Orchestral	1750
Sinfonia a 4 in E-Flat Major	Orchestral	1754
Sinfonia a 4 in G Major	Orchestral	1755
Sinfonia con Fuga in G Minor	Orchestral
Sinfonia con Fuga in G Minor	Chamber Music
Sonata No. 1 for Flute, Cello and Harpsichord in D Major (revised 1764 edition from 1759 collection, No. 2)	Chamber Music
Sonata No. 2 for Flute, Cello and Harpsichord in G Major (revised 1764 edition from 1763 collection, No. 3)	Chamber Music
Sonata No. 3 for Flute, Cello and Harpsichord in A Major (revised 1764 edition from 1759 collection, No. 6)	Chamber Music
Sonata No. 3 for Flute, Cello and Harpsichord in G Major	Chamber Music
Sonata No. 4 for Flute, Cello and Harpsichord in C Major (revised 1764 edition from 1759 collection, No. 4)	Chamber Music
Sonata No. 5 for Flute, Cello and Harpsichord in F Major (revised 1764 edition from 1763 collection, No. 1)	Chamber Music
Sonata No. 6 for Flute, Cello and Harpsichord in G Minor (revised 1764 edition from 1763 collection, No. 5)	Chamber Music
String Quartet in A Major, Op. 5, No. 3	Chamber Music	1768
String Quartet in B-Flat Major, Op. 5, No. 2	Chamber Music	1768
String Quartet in C Major, Op. 5, No. 1	Chamber Music	1768
String Quartet in D Major, Op. 5, No. 6	Chamber Music	1768
String Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 5, No. 4	Chamber Music
String Quartet in G Major, Op. 5, No. 5	Chamber Music	1768
String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 5, No. 5b	Chamber Music	1768
Super flumina Babylonis	Choral - Sacred	1718
Symphony in B-Flat Major	Orchestral
Symphony in B-Flat Major	Chamber Music
Symphony in C Major	Orchestral
Symphony in C Major, Op. 2, No. 3	Orchestral	1759
Symphony in D Major, Op. 2, No. 1	Orchestral	1759
Symphony in D Major, Op. 2, No. 6	Orchestral	1759
Symphony in E-Flat Major, Op. 2, No. 4	Orchestral	1759
Symphony in F Major, Op. 2, No. 2	Orchestral	1759
Symphony in G Major	Chamber Music
Symphony in G Major	Orchestral
Symphony in G Major, Op. 2, No. 5	Orchestral	1759
Symphony No. 13 in C Minor	Orchestral
Symphony No. 27 in G Minor	Chamber Music
Symphony No. 27 in G Minor	Orchestral	1744
Symphony No. 29 in G Minor (arr. E. Bodart)	Orchestral
Symphony No. 34 in F Major	Orchestral
Symphony No. 36 in F Major	Orchestral
Symphony No. 40 in F Major	Orchestral
Symphony No. 43 in F Minor	Orchestral
Symphony No. 4 in C Major	Orchestral	1744
Symphony No. 52 in D Major	Orchestral
Symphony No. 53 in D Major, "Trumpet Symphony" (arr. Schroeder)	Orchestral
Symphony No. 56 in D Minor	Orchestral
Symphony No. 59 in B-Flat Major	Orchestral	1744
Symphony No. 5 in C Major	Orchestral	1744
Symphony No. 63 in B-Flat Major	Orchestral
Symphony No. 64 in B-Flat Major	Orchestral
Symphony No. 69 in A Major	Orchestral	1744
Symphony No. 82 in E Minor	Orchestral	1744
Te Deum	Choral - Sacred	1742
Trio Sonata in B-Flat Major, Op. 4, No. 1	Chamber Music
Trio Sonata in D Major, Op. 3, No. 3	Chamber Music
Trio Sonatas in A Minor, Op. 4, No. 6	Chamber Music
Trumpet Concerto in D Major	Concerto
6 Sonatas: Sonata No. 1 in G Major	Chamber Music	1763

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