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Johann Joseph Fux Johann Joseph Fux was an Austrian composer and theorist. He studied language, logic, law and music both at Graz University and the University of Ingolstadt from 1680 to 1687. Around 1695, Fux was appointed to the imperial court of Hungarian bishop Leopold I. While in the court of the emperor, Fux dedicated the Missa SS Trinitatis to Leopold I. Johann Fux kept his position in the court after the death of Leopold I, the reign of Joseph I, and Charles VI. He was appointed Hofkapellmeister during the reign of Charles VI, which he kept until his death. Johann Fux is most known for his book Gradus ad Parnassum. The book was published in 1725, and translated into German, Italian, French, and English around 1742 to 1773. The Gradus ad Parnassum is divided into two separate parts. Musica Speculativa, the first section of the book, extrapolates the use …show more content…
His drive to create a stronger, more musical, ear was inspiring to many composers at that time. Though, there is little known on how widely accepted his theories were at the time, however we do know that his theories are widely used today.
Heinrich Schenker Heinrich Schenker went to the University of Vienna to study law, under his father’s advising. While there, he enrolled at a conservatory in Vienna where he learned harmony and theory from Bruckner. He did not stay long at the conservatory, however, do to his father’s death, and his need to help provide for his mother and siblings. He was most widely known as a music critic and editor while in Vienna. Upon analyzing classical pieces from the 18th century, Schenker started tinkering with the idea of secondary dominant chords. It was in his book Harmonielehre were he stated that in a harmonic scale, if you take the fifth and stack another fifth on top of it, you will find that chord’s secondary dominant chord. This theory paved the way toward smoother key changes and

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