Robert Fuchs

Composer Robert Fuchs was an important figure during the late Romantic era and a prominent educator. He was especially influential as a teacher, numbering among his students such prominent figures as Gustav Mahler, Jean Sibelius, Hugo Wolf, and George Enescu. The brother of composer Johann Nepomuk Fuchs, Robert Fuchs was especially recognized as a composer of serenades. He composed a substantial body of music that included three symphonies, a piano concerto, two operas (Die Königsbraut, 1889, and Die Teufelsglocke, 1893), three masses, chamber works, and music for piano and organ. His most popular works were his five serenades for orchestra, which earned him the nickname "Serenaden-Fuchs." Fuchs died on February 19, 1927. By the mid-2020s, recordings of some 75 of his works were in print, including all the serenades.