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Johann Joseph Fux

1660 - 1741

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Johann Joseph Fux (German: [ˈjoːhan ˈjoːzɛf ˈfʊks]; c. 1660 – 13 February 1741) 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 influential book on the Palestrinian style of Renaissance polyphony. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Joseph Fux is the 215th most popular composer (up from 383rd in 2019), the 207th most popular biography from Austria (up from 356th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Austrian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Johann Joseph Fux ranks 215 out of 1,451. Before him are Vittorio Monti, Jacob Obrecht, Leonardo Vinci, Pauline Viardot, Dmitry Bortniansky, and John Barry. After him are Umberto Giordano, Josef Mysliveček, Francesca Caccini, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Josef Suk, and Eugène Ysaÿe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1660, Johann Joseph Fux ranks 5. Before him are Daniel Defoe, George I of Great Britain, Alessandro Scarlatti, and Maria Anna Victoria of Bavaria. After him are Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, Johann Kuhnau, André Campra, Veronica Giuliani, Hans Sloane, Andreas Schlüter, and Francesco II d'Este, Duke of Modena. Among people deceased in 1741, Johann Joseph Fux ranks 4. Before him are Antonio Vivaldi, Vitus Bering, and Ulrika Eleonora, Queen of Sweden. After him are Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria, Pauline Félicité de Mailly-Nesle, Wirich Philipp von Daun, Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine, Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, Anna Maria Franziska of Saxe-Lauenburg, Victor Amadeus I, Prince of Carignano, and Georg Rafael Donner.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Johann Joseph Fux ranks 207 out of 1,424. Before him are Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg (1771), Constance of Austria (1588), Max Reinhardt (1873), Aloys I, Prince of Liechtenstein (1759), Joseph Joachim (1831), and Maria Schell (1926). After him are Wilhelm Miklas (1872), Falco (1957), Otto Neurath (1882), Jörg Haider (1950), Maria Antonia of Austria (1669), and Anton Diabelli (1781).

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Among COMPOSERS In Austria

Among composers born in Austria, Johann Joseph Fux ranks 18. Before him are Josef Strauss (1827), Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart (1791), Eduard Strauss (1835), Émile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865), Michael Haydn (1737), and Anna Maria Mozart (1720). After him are Johann Georg Albrechtsberger (1736), Ludwig Minkus (1826), Franz Xaver Süssmayr (1766), Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871), Joseph Lanner (1801), and Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739).

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