# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/franz-xaver-richter
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:48:49.300Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/franz-xaver-richter"
name: "Franz Xaver Richter"
slug: "franz-xaver-richter"
description: "Franz Xaver Richter, known as François Xavier Richter in France was an Austro-Moravian singer, violinist, composer, conductor and music theoretician who spent most of his life first in Austria and later in Mannheim and in Strasbourg, where he was music director of the cathedral. From 1783 on, Haydn's favourite pupil, Ignaz Pleyel, was his deputy director."
tagline: "Austro-Moravian singer, violinist, composer, conductor and music theoretician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Franz_Xaver_Richter_by_Heinrich_Eduard_von_Wintter.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1709-12-01"
deathDate: "1789-09-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           18.633444
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "3QyU1fkxw1jcYIy3V8Rn2e"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump