ABSTRACT
In 1961, John Henry van der Meer published a book in three volumes on Fux’s stage works. 1 This study was based mainly on the manuscript scores in the Austrian national library; the only modern edition then available was that of the famous festival opera of 1723, Co stanza e Fortezza. 2 Since that time, the situation has improved for scholars of Fux’s secular dramatic works: the Johann Joseph Fux-Gesellschaft in Graz has issued the first two extant works of 1708, 3 and the score of Elisa (1719 and 1729) has been edited by the present writer. The serenata Orfeo ed Euridice (1715) is available in a facsimile edition. 4
