Baroque · Germany and Central Europe
1660 – 1741
Hirtenfeld (Styria) - Vienna
Review
Master of Imperial chapel in Vienna at the service of three emperors, was the highest musical authority of the Habsburg court.
His counterpoint treaty Gradus ad Parnassum (1725) was the composition manual of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven and is still being studied. He was a teacher of Zelenka and Wagenseil.
Main works
- Concentus musico-instrumentalis (1701)
- Kaiserrequiem (1720)
- Opera Costanza e fortezza (Prague, 1723)
- Gradus ad Parnassum (1725)
- Canon Missa
- Rondeau to 7
