!!!Baroque/High
!!Johann Josef Fux: ''Angelica vincitrice di Alcina''

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Johann Joseph Fux (1660
Hirtenfeld/Styria - 1741 Vienna) was undoubtedly the most importan
Austrian Baroque composer. It can be taken as a sign of his fame during
his lifetime that he was in imperial service starting at the latest in
1698 and then became chapelmaster to Emperor Charles VI in 1715. Fux
composed the opera ''Angelica vincitrice di Alcina'' for the birth of
Prince Leopold 1716 (deceased soon afterwards). The famous stage
architect, Giuseppe Galli-Bibiena, designed a set on two islands in a
pond in the park of the Favorita Palace for the opera and this affected
Fux's instrumentation: there was a stronger brass section in keeping
with an open-air performance.

The musical example presents the
climax of the first act: Alcina orders  evil spirits to inhabit
Angelica's happy island with monsters.
(E. Stadler)


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caption='Audio sample of Johann Josef Fux: "Angelica vincitrice di Alcina". Live-Mitschnitt der Aufführung anläßlich der Wiedereröffnung der Grazer Oper 1985\\© Vereinigte Bühnen Graz, Steiermark.'}]



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