Johann Joseph Fux was an Austrian composer, music theorist and pedagogue of the late Baroque era. His most enduring work is not a musical composition but his treatise on counterpoint, Gradus ad Parnassum, which has become the single most... Wikipedia
Born: 1660, Langegg bei Graz, Austria
Died: February 13, 1741 (age 81 years), Vienna, Austria
Parents: Andreas Fux and Ursula Fux
Spouse: Clara Juliana Schnitzenbaum (m. 1696–1731)
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