Music and Time Annotation << Back Treatise I.I. Fuchs’ "Gradus ad Parnassum" and the Tradition of Teaching Counterpoint in Conservatoire Courses in Russia in the 19th and 20th Centuries O.A. Krishtalyuk This article is devoted to Gradus ad Parnassum, one of the most famous counterpoint textbooks, written and published by the Austrian composer and teacher J.J. Fuchs in 1725. Fuchs’ method of studying counterpoint technique was so effective that it became the leading method of practical mastering of strict style counterpoint in Europe in the 18th–20th centuries. All Viennese classical composers and many Romantic composers studied the textbook Gradus ad Parnassum. In 19th century Russia, Fuchs’ method was known, but at the beginning of the 20th century it was criticised and replaced by the system of Taneyev. After a century of neglect in Russia, the last decade has seen musicological interest in "Gradus ad Parnassum". The author concludes on the basis of Fuchs’s method analysis, as well as the historical role which this textbook played in the history of music that at the contemporary Russian music colleges and universities the material of the Fuchs’s textbook can be effectively applied. Moreover, the "Gradus ad Parnassum" technique can be applied for the analysis of some particular features of texture structure and counterpoint technique in works by European and Russian composers of the 18th - 20th centuries. Keywords: counterpoint, method, «Gradus ad Parnassum», discharge rhythmics, Alfred Mann. Pp. 30-34.