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Simon Sechter
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- Český Krumlov, Austria
- Active
- 1788–1867
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About
Simon Sechter (11 October 1788 – 10 September 1867) was an Austrian music theorist, composer, conductor, and organist. He is best known as a strict music teacher, whose many students included Anton Bruckner, Sigismond Thalberg, and Henri Vieuxtemps. In 1851, he was professor of composition at the Vienna Conservatory; after Sechter's death, his student Bruckner would succeed him and continue teaching his approach to harmony and counterpoint.
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A highly prolific composer, his total output numbers more than 8,000 compositions, particularly since he sought to write a fugue every day. However, Sechter's best known works are his later (post-1825) masses and oratorios. 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).
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Teacher
- Antonio Salieri
- Eduard Marxsen
- Heinrich Ehrlich
- Selmar Bagge
- Josef Dachs
- Anton Door
- Johann Nepomuk Fuchs
- Louis Köhler
- Henri Vieuxtemps
- Anton Bruckner
- Josef Labor
- Franz Paul Lachner
- Johann Rufinatscha
- Elias Parish Alvars
- Adolf von Henselt
- Theodor Döhler
- Gottfried von Preyer
- Carl Zeller
- Ján Levoslav Bella
- Gustav Nottebohm
- Kéler Béla
- Leopoldine Blahetka
- Franz von Suppé
- Ernst Pauer
- Maurice Strakosch
- Jules Egghard
Identifiers
- MusicBrainz
- 48499dc6-7116-4cfd-bab0-dc4d0b8c39b9
- ISNI
- 0000000080878200
Data from MusicBrainz, saved 6 Nov 2026. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, covers from the Cover Art Archive and Apple Music.