Johann Georg Fux

Johann Georg Fux (* after January 27, 1651 in Tölz ; † January 29, 1738 in Donauwörth ) was a German organ builder .

Life

Fux was born in Tölz in 1651. He learned organ building from Johann König .

He only worked in southern Germany . His most famous work is the largely preserved organ of the Fürstenfeld monastery .

Works

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1697	Munich	St. Michael		II / P	19th	Destroyed in World War II, reconstructed in 1983, see Upper Bavaria organ landscape
1704	Animal heads	St. Peter and Paul		I / P	10	(?) Only Prospekt received
1724	Altötting	Collegiate Church of St. Philip and James		II / P	32	2000 new work with five manuals and 78 registers by Thomas Jann
1730	Obermedlingen	Obermedlingen Monastery		II / P	24	only received prospectus
1736	Fürstenfeldbruck	St. Mary's Assumption Monastery Church		II / P	27	see organs of the monastery church Fürstenfeld

Individual evidence

1. ^ Johann Georg Fux in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
2. ↑ Georg Brenninger : The organs of St. Michael. In: Wagner, Keller (ed.): St. Michael in Munich. 1983, p. 168.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Important historical organ prospectuses in the Diocese of Augsburg, accessed on November 9, 2014.