Sep 8, Fux Documents. In , the Styrian publishing house Leykam published a book about Austria's most prominent baroque composer, titled Johann Joseph Fux. Leben - musikalische Wirkung - Dokumente , edited by Rudolf Flotzinger , professor emeritus of musicology at the University of Graz. This book, which is a collection of articles by several musicologists on the composer's life and work, is structured in three main sections: 1 Life and work, 2 Compositions and writings and 3 Documentation und interpretation.
The chapters dealing with the composer's biography and work "Leben und Wirken" and the documents related to Fux's life were written by Flotzinger, the chapter dealing with Fux's compositions and writings by a number of other Austrian Fux specialists. The cover of this book is special already, because it bears a different title than the title page inside the book "Dokumentation" versus "Dokumente".
The entry concerning Fux's death and the payment of his salary until 14 February to his heirs in the protocol of the I. Court Chamber's dispatch department OeStA, FHKA, HF , fol. A page of the unpublished file of the I. Court Chamber concerning Fux's death and the payment of the rest of his annual salary of gulden until 14 February to his heirs OeStA, FHKA, AHK HFร This document should have been unearthed ages ago by professional Fux researchers.
The Wiener Diarium reporting the return of Prince von Liechtenstein in the evening of 15 February , and his following reception in audience by "Her Majesty the Queen" Wiener Diarium , An example of the word "Nachtbegrรถb[nis]" from , before the abbreviation became shorter A-Wd, BLB , fol.
The word "Kruften" in Fux's Bahrleihbuch entry. This is a single f with the upper horizontal stroke drawn downwards to avoid lifting the pen and to have backswing space for the following t. The word "Clafter" in a property register A-Wsa, Patrimoniale Herrschaften, B Every example of eighteenth-century handwriting I present in this blogpost stands for thousands of similar examples.
