Johann Nepomuk Fuchs

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Johann Nepomuk Fuchs (May 5, 1842, Frauental, Styria – October 15, 1899, Bad Vöslau, Lower Austria) was an Austrian composer and conductor, and the brother of Robert Fuchs.

Fuchs worked as a conductor in Bratislava, Brno, Cologne, Hamburg, and Leipzig, before he became Kapellmeister of the Wiener Hofoper in 1880 and Vice Kapellmeister in 1894. In 1888, he joined the faculty of the Vienna Conservatory, where his pupils included Alexander von Zemlinsky, and was named Director of the institution five years later. Fuchs composed operas and stage music. He also edited operas by Christoph Willibald Gluck, George Frideric Handel, and Franz Schubert, and acted as an advisor to Breitkopf & Härtel in the publication of the Schubert-Gesamtausgabe (Complete Schubert Edition).

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• “Obituary: Johann Nepomuk Fuchs”, The Musical Times and Singing Class Circular 40: 768, 1899 .