Johann Joseph Fux, Austrian composer and theorist (born 1660)

Johann Joseph Fux

Austrian composer (1660–1741)

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 influential book on the Palestrinian…