Fux, Johann Joseph

FUX, Johann Joseph, born 1660 of a peasant family in the hamlet of Hirtenfeld, near Gratz in Styria. Nothing is known of his early life or studies, as he refused to give information on the subject even to Mattheson for his ‘Grundlage einer Ehrenpforte’ (Hamburg 1740; see p. 340, letter dated 1718). From 1696, however, all is clear. In that year he was appointed organist the ecclesiastical foundation ‘Zu den Schotten’ in Vienna; and married a Viennese, by whom...