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Franz Lachner
Person · male · German Reich · Rain · born 1803 · died 1890 · recording since 1990
German composer and conductor (1803-1890)
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Also known as Franz Lachner · Franz Paul Lachner · 弗朗茨·拉克納
Timeline
10 events▣ Album 6◦ Birth 1✦ Award 1† Death 1★ Debut release 1
1800s
1850s
1890s
1990s
· Debut release
Debut release: Suites: No. 1, op. 113 / No. 7, op. 190
First documented Album in the MusicBrainz discography.
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2000s
2020s
Biography
English biography412 words · 3 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1378885833
Biography
Franz Paul Lachner (2 April 1803 – 20 January 1890) was a German composer and conductor.
Biography
Lachner was born in Rain am Lech to a musical family (his brothers Ignaz, Theodor and Vinzenz also became musicians). He studied music with Simon Sechter and Maximilian Stadler. He conducted at the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna where he met Beethoven and Schubert. In 1834, he became Kapellmeister at Mannheim. As a result of composers' aesthetic comparisons of Beethoven's symphonic output with efforts afterwards, in 1835, there was a competition in Vienna for the best new symphony sponsored by Tobias Haslinger of the music publishing firm with no fewer than 57 entries. Lachner received first prize with his 5th Symphony Sinfonia passionata, or Preis-Symphonie and became royal Kapellmeister at Munich, becoming a major figure in its musical life, conducting at the opera and various concerts and festivals. His career there came to a sudden end in 1864 after Richard Wagner's disciple Hans von Bülow took over Lachner's duties. Lachner remained officially in his post on extended leave for a few years until his contract expired.
Work
Lachner was a well-known and prolific composer in his day, though he is not now considered a major composer. His work, influenced by his friends Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert, is regarded as competent and craftsman-like, but is now generally little known. This regard may be attributed to Lachner’s conservative approaches to composition, which position him anachronistically as a Classical composer, rather than among his contemporaries in the early Romantic period. His symphonies use the larger forces introduced by Beethoven, but “his structures, tonal palette, and melodic development are stolidly Mozartean.” Among his greatest successes were his opera Catarina Cornaro (1841, preceding Donizetti's opera by three years), his Requiem, and his seventh orchestral suite (1881).
In the present day it may be his organ sonatas (Opp. 175, 176, 177) and chamber music, in particular his music for wind instruments, that receive the most attention, though his string quartets and some of his eight symphonies have been performed and recorded. His songs, some of which are set to the same texts that Schubert used, contributed to the development of the German Lied.
For performances of Cherubini's Médée in Frankfurt in 1855, Lachner composed recitatives to replace the original spoken dialogue, and it was this version, translated into Italian, which was used in many twentieth-century revivals and recordings of that opera, most notably those with Maria Callas in the title role.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
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| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 24 | 85.8th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 7 | 80.4th |
| Studio albums | 6 | 86.1th |
| Awards recorded | 2 | 92.6th |
| Timeline events | 10 | 86.7th |
| Recording span (years) | -100 | 5th |
| Genres | 4 | 84.7th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (7 release groups · 6 studio albums)
Albums · 6
Suites: No. 1, op. 113 / No. 7, op. 190
1990 · studio album
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Tracklist · 8 tracks · 1:13:05
1Suite no. 1 in D minor, op. 113: I. Praludium3:502Suite no. 1 in D minor, op. 113: II. Menuetto6:293Suite no. 1 in D minor, op. 113: III. Variationen und Marsch24:594Suite no. 1 in D minor, op. 113: IV. Introduzione und Fuge7:205Suite no. 7 in D minor, op. 190: I. Ouverture11:366Suite no. 7 in D minor, op. 190: II. Scherzo7:067Suite no. 7 in D minor, op. 190: III. Intermezzo5:568Suite no. 7 in D minor, op. 190: IV. Chaconne e Fuga5:49Symphony no. 8, op. 100 / Ball-Suite, op. 170
1994 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 1:17:54
1Symphony no. 8 in G minor, op. 100: Andante - Allegro maestoso16:442Symphony no. 8 in G minor, op. 100: Andante12:323Symphony no. 8 in G minor, op. 100: Scherzo6:444Symphony no. 8 in G minor, op. 100: Finale. Allegro vivace9:455Ball-Suite in D major, op. 170: Introduction und Polonaise7:406Ball-Suite in D major, op. 170: Mazurka2:587Ball-Suite in D major, op. 170: Walzer5:378Ball-Suite in D major, op. 170: Intermezzo4:239Ball-Suite in D major, op. 170: Dreher2:5110Ball-Suite in D major, op. 170: Lance8:401999 · studio album
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Tracklist · 19 tracks · 1:05:18
1Der Abend4:312Bey einer Rose2:563Lebenslied2:534Serenade3:285Des Maedchens Klage5:126Fliess hinab, mein stilles Leben2:237Sängerfahrt, op. 33: Die badende Elfe2:398Sängerfahrt, op. 33: An den Mond2:069Sängerfahrt, op. 33: Die Bergstimme2:2410Sängerfahrt, op. 33: Der wunde Ritter3:2111Sängerfahrt, op. 33: Im Mai2:1012Sängerfahrt, op. 33: Eine Liebe1:0713Sängerfahrt, op. 33: Die Meerfrau3:2114Sängerfahrt, op. 33: Wasserfahrt1:5315Sängerfahrt, op. 33: Die einsame Träne3:5016Sängerfahrt, op. 33: Ein Traumbild3:3917An die ferne Geliebte, op. 9812:5218Wonne der Wehmut, op. 83 no. 12:0219Neue Liebe neues Leben, op. 75 no. 22:312008 · studio album
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Tracklist · 15 tracks · 1:07:31
1Prelude and Fugue in B minor9:272Sonata in F minor, op. 175: I. Allegro molto moderato3:443Sonata in F minor, op. 175: II. Andante4:184Sonata in F minor, op. 175: III. Fuge. Allegro non troppo1:535Sonata in F minor, op. 175: IV. Andante con moto8:146Fugue in F major2:067Sonata in C major, op. 176: I. Andante5:568Sonata in C major, op. 176: II. Fantasie mit Fuge. Allegro moderato e maestoso5:269Sonata in C major, op. 176: III. Largo ma non troppo – Andante con moto7:2410Prelude and Fugue in E major: I. Prelude. Andante con moto3:4811Prelude and Fugue in E major: II. Fuge. Allegro2:4112Sonata in E minor, op. 177: I. Adagio / II. Andantino3:5313Sonata in E minor, op. 177: III. Allegro non troppo – Lento – Andante con moto2:0414Sonata in E minor, op. 177: IV. Variationen. Andante4:0415Fugue in E minor [bellows, operated by an assistant (calcant)]2:33Symphony no. 6 / Concertino for Bassoon & Orchestra
2021 · studio album
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Tracklist · 7 tracks · 1:01:36
1Symphony no. 6 in D major, op. 56: Allegro non troppo15:222Symphony no. 6 in D major, op. 56: Andante8:113Symphony no. 6 in D major, op. 56: Scherzo. Allegro assai10:444Symphony no. 6 in D major, op. 56: Finale. Allegro con brio10:005Concertino for Bassoon & Orchestra in E-flat major: Allegro moderato con fuoco6:106Concertino for Bassoon & Orchestra in E-flat major: Andante3:507Concertino for Bassoon & Orchestra in E-flat major: Rondo. Allegretto7:192022 · studio album
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Tracklist · 6 tracks · 1:05:55
1Nonet in F major: I. Andantino – Allegro moderato14:522Nonet in F major: II. Menuetto. Allegro moderato8:283Nonet in F major: III. Adagio6:304Nonet in F major: IV. Finale. Allegro ma non troppo10:195Intermezzo in F major, TrV 1386:156Fantasie in F minor, op. 103, D 94019:31
Broadcast · 1
| Cover | Year | Title | Notes | First release |
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| — | Septet in E-flat / Octet in B-flat for WindsSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 2 tracks · 1:11:321Septet in E-flat40:47 2Octet in B-flat for Winds30:45 | — |
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Franz Lachner head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 24 | 85.8th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 7 | 80.4th |
| Studio albums | 6 | 86.1th |
| Awards recorded | 2 | 92.6th |
| Timeline events | 10 | 86.7th |
| Recording span (years) | -100 | 5th |
| Genres | 4 | 84.7th |
Awards & honours
| Year | Award | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1853 | Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art | won | |
| — | honorary citizen of Munich | won |
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portrait—Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · retrieved 11 October 2026
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https://musicbrainz.org/artist/2f66bb7a-3ce4-4c4d-a660-660411eff8f6discography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/2f66bb7a-3ce4-4c4d-a660-660411eff8f6core—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
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https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q713451seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Lachnerbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
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Image: Fritz Luckhardt · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q713451 · MusicBrainz: 2f66bb7a-3ce4-4c4d-a660-660411eff8f6
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