Franz Paul Rigler
Illustration — Title-page of Franz Paul Rigler's Three Rondos (1790) - the only known extant copy of the original edition Franz Xaver Paul Rigler (Riegler) (1747/1748 – 17 October 1796) was an Austrian piano virtuoso, composer, teacher and theorist. Rigler was probably born in Vienna, Austria. In the period from around 1775 to 1791, he was the music professor at the Royal National School in Pressburg (now Bratislava).
Franz Paul Rigler
Franz Rigler (1748–1796) · Archive of Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Vienna · Public domain
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- 1796 · Vienna.
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- musicologist · composer · music educator · music theorist · music teacher · pianist
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Illustration — Title-page of Franz Paul Rigler's Three Rondos (1790) - the only known extant copy of the original edition Franz Xaver Paul Rigler (Riegler) (1747/1748 – 17 October 1796) was an Austrian piano virtuoso, composer, teacher and theorist. Rigler was probably born in Vienna, Austria. In the period from around 1775 to 1791, he was the music professor at the Royal National School in Pressburg (now Bratislava).
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Born at Vienna in 1747, died in Vienna in 1796.
Franz Paul Rigler (1747–1796) was a musicologist, composer and music educator.
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- Franz Paul Rigler as Theorist and Composer. University of Pittsburgh. 1969. 1268317.
- Louis Munkachy. Rigler, Franz Paul. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Stanley Sadie (éd.). Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Macmillan Publishers. Macmillan. Londres. 2001. 29. 9780195170672.
- Franz Paul Rigler: Three Rondos for Harpsichord or Piano. Hudobné Centrum. 2010.
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