Gottlieb Theophil Muffat (1690–1770) was an Austrian

Austrians

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 composer/organist and son of Georg Muffat

Georg Muffat

-Life:He was born in Megève, Savoy, , and of Scottish descent. He studied in Paris with Jean Baptiste Lully between 1663 and 1669, then became an organist in Molsheim and Sélestat. Later, he studied law in Ingolstadt, afterwards settling in Vienna...

. He studied with Johann Fux

Johann Fux

Johann Joseph Fux was an Austrian composer, music theorist and pedagogue of the late Baroque era. He is most famous as the author of Gradus ad Parnassum, a treatise on counterpoint, which has become the single most influential book on the Palestrina style of Renaissance polyphony...

 in Vienna

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 from 1711 onward and was appointed court organist in 1717. He assisted in the performance of Fux's opera Costanza e fortezza in Prague

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. His students included several young members of the royal family, among them the future empress Maria Theresia; he was promoted to second organist in 1729 and first organist in 1741 and apparently stopped composing music after this final promotion. Two of his most famous works are 72 Versetl sammt 12 Toccaten (Vienna, 1726) and Componimenti musicali per il cembalo (Augsburg

Augsburg

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, ca. 1736).

Recordings

Excerpts from 72 Versetl sammt 12 Toccaten
http://emc.elte.hu/~pinter/organ.html
(at the last 1/3 part of the page)