español | français Heinrich Schütz Emma Kirkby 10 CDs for a desert island : Joshua Rifkin Fux´s Vienna Travel notes II   52 - 51 - 50 - 49 - 48 - 47 - 46 - 45 - 44 - 43 - 42 - 41 - 40 - 39 - 38 - 37 - 36 - 35 - 34 - 33 - 32 - 31 - 30 - 29 - 28 - 27 - 26 - 25 - 24 - 23 - 22 - 21 - 20 - 19 - 18 - 17 - 16 - 15 - 14 - 13 - 12 - 11 - 10 - 09 - 08 - 07 - 06 - 05 - 04 - 03 - 02 - 01 - FUX´S VIENNA The building boom that Baroque Vienna enjoyed in the early 18th century found one of its leading figures in the architect Johann Bernard Fischer von Erlach (1656-1723). He studied in Rome, where he came to know the work of Borromini and whose influence is clear in his own work. After returning to Austria, Fischer von Erlach designed several buildings, such as the Church of St. Charles in Vienna (1715). One of his most splendid projects, illustrations of which accompany this article, is the Library of the Imperial Palace in Vienna (1722), which was commissioned from him by the Emperor Charles VI. With its rectangular base and oval-shaped dome in the center, the Hofburg library is a Baroque blend of light and shadow, of marble and books. Vienna. To a music lover the very name evokes a myriad of evocations. The city of Haydn, of Mozart, of Beethoven, the great triumvirate on whose shoulders rest the foundation and glory of the classical era, of the Biedermeier world of Schubert, the tortured soul of Mahler, the radical new music of Schönberg, Berg, and Webern. Yet there is another, earlier musical Vienna, an era all but forgotten by historians. It is the story of a world of extravagance centred around three musical Habsburg emperors and Johann Joseph Fux, the man who served them faithfully for more than half a century. It starts in 1685 or thereabouts with the arrival in the imperial capital of the young Fux, then in his mid-twenties. It ends on 13 February 1741, the date on which Fux died at the age of 80, outliving the last of the emperors he served by less than five months. Discography Goldberg Articles ABOUT US | CONTRIBUTE   web map - home page - cover Legal warning Copyright 2003, Goldberg. info@goldberg-magazine.com