Johann Nepomuk Fuchs (composer)

Johann Nepomuk Fuchs (5 May 1842 – 5 October 1899)[1][2][3][4] was an Austrian composer, opera conductor, teacher and editor.

Johann Nepomuk Fuchs was born on 5 May 1842 at Frauental in Styria in the south of Austria.

[5][3] In 1888, Fuchs joined the faculty of the Vienna Conservatory,[5] where the composer Alexander von Zemlinsky was one of his students of composition.

[5] Fuchs composed operatic and incidental music for the theatre, as well as lieder and piano pieces.

[5] As an editor, Fuchs worked on editions of operas, including Gluck's Le cadi dupé, Handel's Almira and Schubert's Alfonso und Estrella.