Fux-online offers comprehensive information on Johann Joseph Fux (ca. 1660–1741), the most important composer of the Austrian baroque. It provides texts about
Fux and Fux research as well as additions to the scientific
edition Johann Joseph Fux – Works. For chosen works,
practical performance materials (parts) are made freely available at Fux-online. In addition, the website offers link-lists to
digitized manuscripts,
portraits and
other editions.
Fux concertato
As a supplement to the edition Johann Joseph Fux - Werke published by Hollitzer, performance materials are made available as open access in the Fux concertato series. It includes material for volumes that have already been published (as in the case of Messe K 34a = volume 1 of the works edition) as well as editions specially prepared for music practice (as with the motet K 165, cf. the illustration). These result from collaborations with renowned festivals such as the styriarte or the Resonanzen as well as other performances. Works that for various reasons are not included in the printed series can appear online. As a rule, a conductor's score, parts and accompanying texts (music-historical introduction, critical report, song texts, etc.) are offered as PDFs.
News
New release: "Gli ossequi della Notte"
- 08. Mar 2023

In the print series Johann Joseph Fux - Werke the third opera volume has been published:
Gli ossequi della Notte FuxWV II.2.9 (K 305), edited by Alexander Rausch,
with a literary historical introduction by Alfred Noe,
Vienna: Hollitzer Verlag, 2022 (= Johann Joseph Fux Werke B/I/3)
Further information on this
publicationKlagenfurt - Fux in the Cathedral
- 11. Nov 2022

On November 11, 2022 a
concert took place in the Klagenfurt Cathedral, in which Fux's Mass K 47 was the principal work. The performance was prepared by Ramona Hocker (Gustav Mahler Private University of Music) in the context of a seminar with students and realized by them under the direction of Cathedral conductor Thomas Wasserfaller.
The musical quality of the Mass in C major K 47 (in the festive style, with trumpets and timpani) is extraordinary, which is why the rehearsal for the modern first performance (since 1731) was worthwhile. This setting of the Ordinary is also interesting for Fux philology because two shorter movements exist as variants for the eight-part "Crucifixus," which have been preserved as autographs. The original parts are kept in the
ÖNB (Mus.Hs.16118).
In addition to works by Georg Muffat, Isaac Posch and Johann Sebastian Bach, the trio sonata in G minor FuxWV III.1.24 (K 370) was also performed. This established a local reference, since this instrumental piece was already heard in Klagenfurt in 1728.
Follow-up performances for 2023 are already planned, the performance material of the Mass K 47 is to be published in the series Fux concertato (#8).
Extracts of the concert were published
here in February 2023, a trailer with background information can be found
here.
Styriarte 2023
- 25. Jun 2022
With the rediscovery of the Festa teatrale La corona d'Arianna, the fifth Fux Opera Festival of the styriarte 2022 became another success with the audience. In addition to the imaginative direction and costumes, the refreshing interpretation of the music, heard for the first time, contributed to this: as usual, professional and inspired conductor Alfredo Bernardini with the Ensemble Zefiro, the soloists and the Arnold Schoenberg Choir (rehearsal: Erwin Ortner).
The video of this production can be seen on the homepage of the
styriarte.
Review of the Fux.Opernfest vol. 5Förderung der MA 7 / Stadt Wien
- 01. Jun 2022
We are pleased that the work on the Fux edition and the development of Fux-online and the database are again receiving
project funding from the
City of Vienna, Kulturabteilung, Wissenschafts- und Forschungsförderung (MA 7). The new project mainly concerns the opera
Costanza e fortezza and will start in October 2022.
CD release Plaudite
- 13. Jan 2022
In the series
Klingende Forschung (published by the ACDH-CH and the Phonogrammarchiv of the ÖAW) CD No. 7 has been released:
Plaudite! Musik von Fux, Telemann und Vivaldi with, among others, three works by Fux: the motet Plaudite, sonat tuba K 165, the Ave Regina caelorum K 208 and the Laetare turba caelitum E 80. The musical material and scientific documentation for all three pieces are available as open access in our series
Fux concertato (nos. 1-3).
The ensemble
Fiori armonici is conducted by Vladimir Prado, the soloists are Karoline Pilcz (soprano) and Lorin Wey (tenor).
The scholarly texts in the booklet were written by Alexander Rausch, Ramona Hocker and Elisabeth Hilscher.
Order from the publisher at OEAW:
CD Plaudite

Ö1 "Nisi Dominus"
- 29. Jul 2021
On 9 August 2021, 2:05 p.m. Ö1 broadcasts a concert of the styriarte (recorded on 10.7.2021 in the parish church of Stainz). Performed was the Dixit Dominus in G minor HWV 232 by Handel, the Magnificat in G minor RV 610 by Vivaldi and at the beginning the "Nisi Dominus" from the Vespers K 68 by Fux. The Arnold Schoenberg Choir under the direction of Jordi Savall appears. The musical material was prepared according to the source in the ÖNB as part of the ÖAW long-term project "J. J. Fux - Werke".
CD release Dafne in lauro
- 13. Jul 2021

A new recording of the opera Dafne in lauro has been presented by Alfredo Bernardini and the Ensemble Zefiro. It is based on the 2019 styriarte production and offers a welcome addition to the older recording with René Clemencic. The score was compiled as part of the long term project "Fux" of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Fux.OPERNFEST Vol. 4 with Psiche
- 28. Jun 2021

The fourth edition of the styriarte's Fux Opera Festival, which has been held annually since 2018, brought a rarity of Viennese baroque opera to the stage in the form of the Serenata Psiche. In a fabulously beautiful but also witty and ironic production (Adrián Schvarzstein) in the arcade courtyard of Eggenberg Castle in Graz, the five vocal soloists (leading roles: Carlotta Colombo, Monica Piccinini, Raffaele Pe) offered music theatre of the highest order. The Arnold Schoenberg Choir (rehearsal: Erwin Ortner) set special sonic highlights this year, while the Ensemble Zefiro under the sovereign direction of Alfredo Bernardini has already become a constant at Fux operas in Graz. A sample can be seen at
https://styriarte.com/mediathek/amor-und-psyche.
The collaboration with the Styrian Music Festival and Alfredo Bernardini, which has been in place since 2018, proved particularly exciting for this year's production. As part of the ÖAW's long-term project "Johann Joseph Fux - Werke" (Johann Joseph Fux - Works), a mixed version was created that added two arias with recitatives and two choruses to the parts composed by Fux in 1720/22, which had been supplemented by Antonio Caldara for the first performance in 1720 (due to Fux being unable to perform due to illness).
The relatively complex source situation thus became the occasion for a delightful dialogue between two quite different musical styles. The Covid situation meant that both the score and the orchestral parts still had to be adapted during rehearsals due to necessary cuts and strokes. Fortunately, the conception of the Fux edition is flexible enough - in addition to the print edition for scholars, open access material for practitioners is also offered - to overcome such challenges.
A video recording of the Graz performance of Fux's Psiche will be available on the styriarte homepage from 4.7.2021.
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Förderung durch die MA 7 der Stadt Wien
- 02. Jun 2021
We are pleased that the work on the Fux edition and the development of Fux-online and the database are again receiving
project funding from the
City of Vienna, Kulturabteilung, Wissenschafts- und Forschungsförderung (MA 7).
CD release Fux arias
- 27. Apr 2021

A CD recording with selected arias by Fux has been released, interpreted by Maria Ladurner (soprano). The arias are from better-known and partly still unpublished operas and oratorios by Fux, including Julo Acanio, Dafne in lauro, Giunone placata, Il Testamento, and La Deposizione. An interesting cross-section of the music-dramatic works of the court composer and chapelmaster.
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Older contributions from this category can be found in the archive and in the list with past events.
Concerts
are listed in the menu "Events" and in the menus "Past events".
The contents of this portal are constantly being expanded. A database with a catalogue of works is in progress, which will enable a quick search for work numbers and titles. Relevant information for performance practice – such as keys, instrumentation and editions – is also recorded. A Fux bibliography is also successively built up along with the database, which can be used as a reference list until the searchable database is published.
For further information, comments and questions, please contact us at info[at]fux-online.at