Simon Sechter

As a instructor of counterpoint and theory on the Vienna Conservatory, Sechter taught several famed learners including Schubert (one lesson), Vieuxtemps, Nottebohm, Thalberg and Bruckner. (Bruckner assumed this placement when Sechter retired.) He constructed more than eight thousand parts a comparative handful of which were released and that are extant. The styles of this substantial work included operas, oratorios, configurations for folk music, public, psalms and many piano works. The main component of Sechter’s legacy had been his theoretical writings including “Die Grunsatz der musikalischen Komposition” a three quantity function. Historically Sechter was possibly the most prolific composer. Apparently he’d compose at least one fugue each day. The functions which survive consist of an opera, “Ali Hitsch-Hatsch” and a chorus constructed for Schiller’s “Die Braut von Messina.”