Ferdinand Tobias Richter

Ferdinand Tobias Richter (born July 22, 1651 in Würzburg , † November 3, 1711 in Vienna ) was a German composer and organist of the Baroque period .

Life

Ferdinand Tobias Richter's father, Tobias Richter († 1682), was (Vice) Kapellmeister in Mainz . From 1675 to 1679 Richter worked as an organist at Heiligenkreuz Abbey . In 1683, at the request of Emperor Leopold I, he came to Vienna to succeed Cappelini as court and chamber organist. In 1690 he was appointed first court organist. Richter held this office until his death. His son Anton Karl Richter (1690–1743) also became organist at the Viennese court .

Johann Pachelbel dedicated his variations Hexachordum Apollinis (1699) to Dieterich Buxtehude and Richter.

In addition to Archduke Karl , Johann Georg Christian Störl and Maximilian Zeidler were among his students .

Works

Richter created Jesuit dramas ( Altera Bethlehem sive Domus panis 1684, Hymenaei de Marte triumphus 1699); Operas; Oratorios, serenates; Church music; Sonatas, suites etc. for keyboard instruments.

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Judge, Ferdinand Tobias . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 26th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1874, p. 39 ( digitized version ).
Alexander Rausch : judges, family. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3046-5 .
Hugo Botstiber (Ed.): Viennese piano and organ works from the second half of the 17th century. Alessandro Poglietti , Ferdinand Tobias Richter, Georg Reutter the Elder Older . In: Monuments of Tonkunst in Austria , 27, Vienna 1906.
Arnold Schering : History of the oratorio. Leipzig 1911, pp. 136, 168.
Markus Eberhardt: The piano work of the Viennese court organist Ferdinand Tobias Richter (1651-1711). Biography and analysis. Edition of the sources in facsimile. Stutz, Passau 2011.
Herbert Seifert : Texts on musical drama in the 17th and 18th centuries. Articles and lectures. Hollitzer Wiss.-Verlag, Vienna 2014.

Web links

Ferdinand Tobias Richter in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
Literature by and about Ferdinand Tobias Richter in the catalog of the German National Library
Sheet music and audio files by Ferdinand Tobias Richter in the International Music Score Library Project

Individual evidence

^ Herbert Seifert: Richter, Ferdinand Tobias. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 14 (Riccati - Schönstein). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2005, ISBN 3-7618-1134-9 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
^ Susanne Antonicek, Günter Brosche; Austrian National Library. Music collection (publisher): Musica imperialis: 500 years of the Hofmusikkapelle in Vienna 1498–1998 - Exhibition of the music collection of the Austrian National Library, State Hall, Vienna I., Josefsplatz I, May 11 to November 10, 1998 . H. Schneider, Tutzing 1998, ISBN 3-7952-0931-5 .
↑ Elisabeth Theresia Fritz: With lyre and sword: the Habsburgs and music . Styria, Graz / Vienna / Cologne 2000, ISBN 978-3-222-12816-5 , pp. 126 .
↑ Alexander Rausch : Richter, family. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3046-5 .

personal data
SURNAME	Judge, Ferdinand Tobias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German composer and organist of the baroque period
DATE OF BIRTH	July 22, 1651
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH	November 3, 1711
Place of death	Vienna

[1] Herbert Seifert: Richter, Ferdinand Tobias. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 14 (Riccati - Schönstein). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2005, ISBN 3-7618-1134-9 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)

[2] Susanne Antonicek, Günter Brosche; Austrian National Library. Music collection (publisher): Musica imperialis: 500 years of the Hofmusikkapelle in Vienna 1498–1998 - Exhibition of the music collection of the Austrian National Library, State Hall, Vienna I., Josefsplatz I, May 11 to November 10, 1998 . H. Schneider, Tutzing 1998, ISBN 3-7952-0931-5 .

[3] Elisabeth Theresia Fritz: With lyre and sword: the Habsburgs and music . Styria, Graz / Vienna / Cologne 2000, ISBN 978-3-222-12816-5 , pp. 126 .

[4] Alexander Rausch : Richter, family. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3046-5 .