The Sepolcro oratorio Il fonte della salute will be performed this year at the International Baroque Festival at Melk Abbey. This marks the continuation of the successful collaboration with conductor Stefan Gottfried in an exciting project. The performance materials and a conductor’s score have been prepared by the Fux Research Centre (Alexander Rausch).

Performance: 25 May 2026 (Pentecost Monday) at 7.30 pm in the Abbey Church of Melk

A new volume has been published in the printed edition Johann Joseph Fux Werke: La Regina Saba marks the start of the Oratorios sub-series.

Further information can be found on the Hollitzer Verlag website.

The Mass K 26 (Missa primitiva) can be heard on 15 November 2025 at Heiligenkreuz Abbey, as part of the liturgy at 9:30 a.m. This is likely to be the first modern performance of the work. The mass for soloists, four-part choir, trumpets with timpani, violins and continuo was composed before 1720. It was relatively widespread, including in Dresden, as evidenced by a copy of the score with annotations by Jan Dismas Zelenka, who was known to have been a pupil of Fux in Vienna. The performance material was prepared at the Fux Research Centre of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Under the direction of Johannes Weiss, students from the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts, Institute for Early Music, will perform this mass. We are very grateful for this cooperation with the mdw.

On Good Friday, 18 April 2025, excerpts from the Sepolcro oratorio ‘Il Testamento di nostro Signor Gesù Cristo sul Calvario’ (1726) were performed in Graz. The performance material was created by the Fux edition of the ÖAW.

Helmut-List-Halle Graz, 7 pm

Recreation Orchestra under the direction of Michael Hofstetter
Soloist:innen: Miriam Kutrowatz (soprano) and Constantin Zimmermann (countertenor)

Programme:
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Stabat Mater
Johann Joseph Fux: Sinfonia and arias from ‘Il Testamento di nostro Signor Gesù Cristo sul Calvario’

Our next Fux concert will take place on 30 May 2024 at 7 pm in the Festsaal of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The programme includes the oratorio "La Regina Saba", the first completely preserved dramatic work by J. J. Fux. Composed in 1705, while Leopold I was still alive, it shows the composer from an unusual angle, which contrasts somewhat with his later oratorios. There is much to discover in this modern premiere. Students from the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna will perform under the direction of Stefan Gottfried. A second performance took place at the Pfarrkirche Mariahilf in Graz on 2 June 2024.