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Austrian composer, music theorist, and pedagogue of the Baroque era, renowned for his influential treatise on counterpoint, 'Gradus ad Parnassum'.Born near Graz, Styria (1660).Appointed court composer to Emperor Leopold I in Vienna (1698).Became Kapellmeister at St. Stephen's Cathedral (1705).Served as Hofkapellmeister (Imperial Kapellmeister) to Emperors Joseph I and Charles VI (1715 until death).Authored the seminal counterpoint manual 'Gradus ad Parnassum' (1725).Composed significant sacre...