!!!Fux, Johann Joseph

b. Hirtenfeld (Styria), around 1660, 
d. Vienna, Feb. 13, 1741, composer and music theorist (also called the 
"Austrian Palestrina" for his theoretical work "Gradus ad Parnassum", 
1725). 1696-1702 organist in the Schottenstift monastery in Vienna; 
1705-1713 orchestra director in St Stephen's Cathedral; from 1713 
orchestra director for the Emperor's widow, Amalie Wilhelmine; from 
1711 deputy Kapellmeister; 1715 Kapellmeister at the court of Vienna. 
While during his lifetime mostly known as a composer of the court's 
splendid gala operas, his reputation as a music theorist grew only 
after his death. - In 1955 a Fux Society, which also edits the 
complete edition of F's works, was founded in Graz.

!Works
20 operas (among others "Costanza e Fortezza", 1723), 14 
oratorios, approx. 80 masses and further compositions for sacred 
music, numerous instrumental works. - Edition: Saemtliche Werke, ed. 
by the J.-J.-F.-Ges., 1959ff.

!Literature
L. v. Koechel, J. J. F., 1872 (list of works); R. 
Flotzinger, J. J. F., 1991; A. Edler (ed.), J. J. F. und seine Zeit, 
1996.



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