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Johann Joseph Fux
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Johann Joseph Fux, teacher of Caldara in 1716, Zelenka and Quantz in 1717, and imperial court composer in Vienna from 1715, is better known today as the author of Gradus ad Parnassum (1725), a treatise on sixteenth-century counterpoint in the style of Palestrina. In 1745 Gradus was translated into German by J.S. Bach's pupil Lorenz Christoph Mizler; Bach obtained a copy soon thereafter.
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Fux's eighteen operas, "Elisa" (Vienna 1719) and "Costanza e Fortezza"
(Prague 1723) are the more well known.
- MIDI FILE – Canon Sonate (7’32’’)
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