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Füssen.Town in Bavaria, Germany. It belonged to the see of Augsburg until 1802, and was the seat of a Benedictine monastery founded in the 8th century by St Magnus. Some of the abbey’s musical documents date from the early Middle Ages, but most belong to the late Middle Ages, among them the first treatise on polyphonic Passion singing. From 1395 the church at St Mang possessed its own organ. At the beginning of the 16th century Emperor Maximilian I, with his court musicians, was a frequent guest at the prince-bishop’s castle and the Füssen monastery. In the following decades the monastery engaged the service of a salaried organist, and Cardinal Otto Truchsess von Waldburg insisted on the installation of a precentor. Fragments of late-Renaissance prints and manuscripts have been discovered at the monastery, containing pieces by Lassus, Sermisy, Paminger, Ferretti, Ambrosius Reiner and Alexius Neander. The choirmasters Judas Thaddäus Schnell and Paul Baudrexel were responsible for the early musical education of the local composers Benedikt Lechler (director of music in Kremsmünster 1628–51) and Philipp Jakob Baudrexel (later cathedral choirmaster in Augsburg and Mainz). Abbot Gallus Zeiler was the monastery’s most important musician; between 1732 and 1740 he published various sacred pieces, and in 1752 he instigated the building of a new organ in the monastery chapel. The abbey was suppressed in 1802. Füssen has supported a thriving instrument-making industry for several centuries. The organ builders Hans Schwarzenbach (d 1605), Andreas Jäger (1704–73), Josef Pröbstl (1798–1866), Balthasar Pröbstl (1830–95) and Hermann Späth (1867–1917) built organs for many churches in southern Germany and the Alpine countries. The lute and violin makers were even more significant, being established in the town from 1436. In 1562 the local lute makers founded their own guild, the first of its kind in Europe; in 1618 it had 18 masters. From the 16th century onwards large numbers of lute and violin makers from the Füssen area moved to European musical and commercial centres; the Tieffenbruckers went to Lyons, Paris, Venice, Padua, Perugia and Nuremberg, the Gerles to Nuremberg, Innsbruck and Linz, the Pfanzelts to Rome and Strasbourg, the Railichs to Venice, Genoa and Brescia and the Fendts to Paris and London. The violin-making tradition in Füssen declined in the mid-19th century, though since 1982 instruments have again been made in the town. Wherever they settled the Füssen masters were pioneers in the industry, and without them the lute- and violin-making crafts of Padua, Brescia, Cremona, Mittenwald and elsewhere would never have flourished as they did. Their instruments are major treasures of internationally famous collections.
ADOLF LAYER/ERICH TREMMEL Füssl, Karl Heinz(b Jablonec, Czechoslovakia, 21 March 1924; d Vienna, 4 Sept 1992). Austrian musicologist and composer. He studied at the Vienna Academy with Erwin Ratz (1946–9) and privately with Josef Polnauer (1948–51). He began to compose in 1945 and from 1953 to 1962 he was a music critic in the daily press and specialist journals. In 1958 he joined Universal Edition as an editor. He worked on numerous Urtext editions, including the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe, the Wiener Urtext Ausgabe and above all the Gustav Mahler-Gesamtausgabe, of which he became editor-in-chief in 1973 (upon the death of Erwin Ratz). Füssl also succeeded Ratz as professor of composition at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna. His importance lies in his work as an editor, but he also left an immense corpus of compositions, in which he often attempted to fuse tonality and 12-note technique. His most highly acclaimed successes were the operas Dybuk (H. Wagner, Karlsruhe, 1970), Celestina (H. Lederer, Karlsruhe, 1976) and the church opera Kain (Lederer, Ossiach, 1986). Other works include a ballet, Die Maske (1954), orchestral works such as Epitaph und Antistrophe (1956–71), Concerto rapsodico (1957), Miorita (1963) and Refrains (1972), and chamber and vocal works. He devoted the last years of his life primarily to settings of Hölderlin. EDITIONSL. van Beethoven: Werke für Klavier zu 4 Händen (Vienna, 1960) with E.F. Schmid: W.A. Mozart: Kassationen, Serenaden und Divertimenti, Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke, iv/12/6 (Kassel, 1964) with W. Plath and W. Rehm: W.A. Mozart: Streichquartette, Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke, viii/20, Abt.1/i (Kassel, 1966) W.A. Mozart: Sämtliche Klaviersonaten (Vienna, 1973) J.S. Bach: Inventionen und Sinfonien (Vienna, 1973) RUDOLF KLEIN Fusz, János [Fuss, Johann Evangelist](b Tolna, 16 Dec 1777; d Buda, 9 March 1819). Hungarian composer. He received his general education and earliest musical instruction in Baja, and first taught music in Tolna County. Having won a reputation as a pianist and organist by the 1790s, he entered the services of the musical amateur Ignác Végh as a piano teacher (until 1801) before becoming a teacher in the Hungarian capital, Pozsony (now Bratislava). According to József Krüchten, his friend and later biographer, it was here that Fusz composed the one-act melodrama Pyramus és Thisbe, which may have been performed at the town theatre. Fusz then moved to Vienna to study with Albrechtsberger; he was also in close contact with Haydn. His op.1, a quartet for guitar and string trio, was published in 1804. In 1806 he returned to Pozsony to compose and conduct a birthday cantata for Henrik Klein; during this stay he wrote an opera, Watwort, among other works. After resuming work in Vienna he seems to have led an active musical life, much of which was reported in the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung (to which Fusz himself contributed the obituary of Albrechtsberger in 1809). In 1811 an overture of his for piano eight hands was performed; he later orchestrated it as a prelude to Schiller’s Die Braut von Messina, and it is generally regarded as his most important work. His melodrama Isaak, with arias and choruses to a libretto based on Metastasio, was first performed at the Leopoldstadt Theatre on 22 August 1812; it was revived in 1817 in Buda and Pest. Fusz met Beethoven in about 1815, when both composers were considering setting Treitschke’s Romulus und Remus. Although Fusz realized his project (the first performance took place on 9 September 1816), only a single canon from it survives (published as a supplement to the Wiener allgemeine musikalische Zeitung, 4 Sept 1817). In spring 1817 Fusz, who had visited Pozsony again in 1815 to give piano recitals, retired to his native country, at first seeking a cure for his steadily declining health in the spas at Buda. He conducted the overture to his new opera, Das Medaillon, at a private concert in May 1818, and died the next year while at work on a mass. Apart from the works already mentioned, he composed an operetta, Der Käfig, to a text by Kotzebue, and a musical satire Pandora szelencéje (‘Pandora’s Box’), both of which were first performed in Vienna (1816, 1818). His most important chamber works are a Violin Sonata op.36 and Six Sonatinas for violin and piano op.4; he also published four volumes of lieder. These works were largely written in a German vein, and for this reason Fusz may be regarded as an important representative of the German tradition in Hungarian music of the early 19th century.
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