The Imperial Court Kapellmeister Johann Joseph Fux (ca. 1660-1741) is considered the most
important Austrian Baroque composer. His extensive oeuvre is currently being edited in a
historical-critical edition at the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage
(ACDH-CH). In addition performance materials of selected works are being made available as
open access via the web portal www.fux-online.at. Two concerts in 2017 of sacred vocal music by
Fux and instrumental music by his contemporaries Georg Philipp Telemann and Antonio Vivaldi are
presented on CD with a scholarly booklet. Based on fundamental source studies three liturgical
motets by Fux have been edited for music practice. The publication not only provides the Latin
vocal texts but also attempts to contextualise the pieces historically to discuss structural
as well as thematic peculiarities and to describe the music itself with its own statement and
tradition in each case. Biographies of the contributors and information about the recording
complete the booklet.
