Robert Fuchs (February 15, 1847 – February 19, 1927) was an Austrian composer. Fuchs studied at the Vienna Conservatory with Otto Dessoff and Joseph Hellmesberger among others. He eventually secured a teaching position there and was subsequently appointed Professor of music theory. He was born in Frauental near Graz, the capital of Styria, and died in Vienna at the age of eighty. He was the brother of Johann Nepomuk Fuchs, who was also a composer and conductor, primarily of operas. Robert Fuchs taught many notable composers, including Gustav Mahler, Hugo Wolf, Jean Sibelius, Alexander von Zemlinsky, Erich Korngold, Franz Schmidt, Franz Schreker, Richard Heuberger, Leo Fall, Erkki Melartin, and Leo Ascher. "Unfailingly tuneful and enjoyable, Robert Fuchs?s piano trios are an easily accessible way to get to know a composer whom Brahms greatly admired," noted the magazine Gramophone. "In his time Fuchs was very highly regarded, with one critic

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