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RICHTER, See also:ERNST See also:FRIEDRICH EDUARD (1808–1879) , See also:German musical theorist, was See also:born at Grosschonau in See also:Saxony, on the 24th of See also:October 18o8. He first studied See also:music at See also:Zittau, and afterwards at See also:Leipzig, where he attained so high a reputation that in 1843 he was appointed See also:professor of See also:harmony and See also:counter-point at the conservatorium of music, then newly founded by Mendelssohn. On the See also:death of See also:Hauptmann on the 3rd of See also:January r868, he was elected cantor of the Thomasschule, which See also:office he retained until his death on the 9th of See also:April 1899. He is best known by three theoretical See also:works—Lehrbuch der Harmonie, Lehre vom Contrapunct and Lehre von der Fugevaluable textbooks known to See also:English students through the excellent See also:translation by See also:Franklin See also:Taylor.

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