Johann Joseph Fux was an Austrian composer and theorist who rose from rural origins to become Kapellmeister at the imperial court in Vienna. He is remembered above all for 'Gradus ad Parnassum' (1725), a treatise on species counterpoint that codified the strict contrapuntal discipline later studied by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. His own sacred and instrumental music represents a late flowering of the Austrian Baroque.

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1701

Serenada in C major, K. 352Johann Joseph Fux