Gradus ad Parnassum

Gradus ad Parnassum ( stage or stages to Parnassus, a mountain in central Greece, considered the seat of the Muses ) is the 1725 published music theory major work by Johann Joseph Fux.

The written work on Latin, with full title Gradus ad Parnassum sive manuductio ad compositionem musicae regularem, methodological innovation, ac certa, Nondum ante tam exacto ordine in lucem edita, is a kind of counterpoint textbook in dialogue form. The student Joseph (Johann Joseph Fux ) asks questions that answered Aloysius (Giovanni Pietro Sante Aloisio da Palestrina ). The Viennese School, a pre-or early form of Viennese Classicism, was strongly influenced by this work. It was fast spreading and has been translated into several languages ​​, including a German translation by a pupil of Johann Sebastian Bach, the music theorist Lorenz Christoph Mizler, from the year 1742.

Muzio Clementi wrote 1817-1826 an eponymous piano textbook, which consists of 100 studies or etudes. In the first piece of his work Children 's Corner Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum, grabbed Claude Debussy yet ironically this 1908 piano exercises and the counterpoint theory Fux 'on. Likewise, Hanns Eisler calls his 1934 composed Sonatina Op 44

The name " Gradus ad Parnassum " also carries a collection of 24 etudes for bass, written by Franz Simandl.