Simon Sechter (October 11, 1788 -September 10, 1867), was an Austrian music theorist, teacher, organist, conductor and composer. October 11 is the 284th day of the year (285th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1788 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... September 10 is the 253rd day of the year (254th in leap years). ... 1867 (MDCCCLXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...

He was born in Friedberg (now called Frymburk, Bohemia), and moved to Vienna in 1804, succeeding Vořišek as court organist there in 1824. In 1810 he began teaching piano and voice at an academy for blind students. In 1828 the moribund Franz Schubert had one counterpoint lesson with him. In 1851 Sechter was appointed professor of composition at the Vienna Conservatorium. In his last years, Sechter was generous to a fault, and died in poverty. He was succeeded at the Conservatorium by Anton Bruckner, a former student whose teaching methods were based on Sechter's. Friedberg is the name of two cities in Germany and one in Austria: Friedberg, Bavaria Friedberg, Hesse Friedberg, Styria This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Flag of Bohemia Bohemia (Czech: ; German: ) is a historical region in central Europe, occupying the western and middle thirds of the Czech Republic. ... Inhabitants according to official census figures: 1800 to 2005 Vienna in 1858 UN complex in Vienna, with the non-affiliated Austria Center Vienna in front - picture taken from Danube Tower in nearby Danube Park. ... 1804 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1824 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1810 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1828 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Franz Schubert. ... 1851 (MDCCCLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Anton Bruckner (portrait by Josef Büche) Anton Bruckner (4 September 1824 – 11 October 1896) was an Austrian composer who wrote the majority of his mature music near the end of the Romantic era. ...

Others whom Sechter taught include the composer Henri Vieuxtemps, the conductor Franz Lachner, the teacher Eduard Marxsen (who taught Johannes Brahms piano and counterpoint), Gustav Nottebohm, Carl Umlauf, and the pianist-composer Sigismond Thalberg, to list a few. Henri François Joseph Vieuxtemps (February 17, 1820 – June 6, 1881) was a Belgian composer and violinist active in France. ... Franz Paul Lachner (April 2, 1803 – January 20, 1890) was a German composer and conductor. ... Johannes Brahms. ... Gustav Nottebohm was a pianist, teacher, musical editor and composer. ... Sigismond Thalberg (January 7, 1812–April 27, 1871) was a Swiss pianist of Austrian heritage, born in Geneva. ...

Sechter had strict teaching methods. For instance, he forbade Bruckner to write any original compositions while studying counterpoint with him. The scholar Robert Simpson believes that "Sechter unknowingly brought about Bruckner's originality by insisting that it be suppressed until it could no longer be contained." Sechter taught Bruckner by mail from 1855 to 1861, and considered Bruckner his most dedicated pupil. Upon Bruckner's graduation, Sechter wrote a fugue dedicated to his student. Robert (Wilfred Levick) Simpson (March 2, 1921 - December 21, 1997) was an English musicologist and composer best known for his symphonies and string quartets. ... In music, a fugue (IPA: ) is a type of contrapuntal composition. ...

In the three-volume treatise on the principles of composition, Die Grundsätze der musikalischen Komposition, Sechter wrote a seminal work that influenced many later theorists. Sechter's ideas are derived from Jean-Philippe Rameau's theories of the fundamental bass, always diatonic even when the surface is highly chromatic. Sechter was an advocate of just intonation over well-tempered tuning. Jean-Philippe Rameau, by Jacques André Joseph Aved, 1728 Jean-Philippe Rameau (September 25, 1683 - September 12, 1764) was one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the Baroque era. ... In music, just intonation, also called rational intonation, is any musical tuning in which the frequencies of notes are related by whole number ratios; that is, by positive rational numbers. ... Well temperament (or circular temperament) is a type of tuning described in 20th-century music theory. ...

Sechter was also a composer, and in that capacity is mostly remembered for writing about 5000 fugues (he tried to write at least one fugue every day), but he also wrote masses and oratorios. He may have been the most prolific composer who ever lived, outdoing even Telemann in the size of his output. Georg Philipp Telemann (March 14, 1681–June 25, 1767) was a German Baroque music composer, born in Magdeburg. ...

Sechter was aklso the teacher of Adolf von Henselt. Statue of von Henselt in his hometown of Schwabach Adolf von Henselt (May 12, 1814 - October 10, 1889), German composer and pianist, was born at Schwabach, in Bavaria. ...