Benedict Anton Aufschnaiter (baptised 21 February 1665,

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– buried 24 January 1742,

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) was an Austrian Baroque composer. Aufschnaiter received much of his musical education in

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, where he lived for several years. Later he got a post at the band near to the emperor's court. On 16 January 1705, he was appointed ''Kapellmeister'' at the

court by Bishop-Cardinal

Johann Philipp von Lamberg Cardinal Johann Philipp '' Graf'' von Lamberg Johann Philipp Cardinal Count von Lamberg (25 May 1651 in Vienna - 30 October 1712 in Regensburg), was bishop of Passau, a Cardinal and diplomat in the service of the Habsburg emperors. Early life ...

as a successor to

Georg Muffat Georg Muffat (1 June 1653 – 23 February 1704) was a Baroque composer and organist. He is best known for the remarkably articulate and informative performance directions printed along with his collections of string pieces ''Florilegium Primum'' a ...

. Aufschnaiter died there in January 1742. He was married twice and from the second marriage, he had a son. Most of Aufschnaiter's 300 surviving works are sacred. In his ''Regulæ Fundamentales Musurgiæ'', he named

Giacomo Carissimi (Gian) Giacomo Carissimi (; baptized 18 April 160512 January 1674) was an Italian composer and music teacher. He is one of the most celebrated masters of the early Baroque or, more accurately, the Roman School of music. Carissimi established the ...

Orlande de Lassus Orlando di Lasso ( various other names; probably – 14 June 1594) was a composer of the late Renaissance. The chief representative of the mature polyphonic style in the Franco-Flemish school, Lassus stands with William Byrd, Giovanni Pierlui ...

Johann Kaspar Kerll Johann Caspar Kerll (9 April 1627 – 13 February 1693) was a German Baroque composer and organist. He is also known as Kerl, Gherl, Giovanni Gasparo Cherll and Gaspard Kerle. Born in Adorf in the Electorate of Saxony as the son of an organist, ...

and

Adam Gumpelzhaimer Adam Gumpelzhaimer, also Adam Gumpeltzhaimer (1559 – 3 November 1625) was a Bavarian composer and music theorist. Born in Trostberg, he studied music with the monk Jodocus Enzmüller. In 1581 he became cantor at the Augsburg Cathedral; a post ...

as his idols.

List of selected works

Theoretical works

*''Regulæ Fundamentales Musurgiæ'' (Fundamental rules on composing good music)

Compositions

*''Concors discordia'' op. 2 (Nürnberg 1695) – six serenades for orchestra *''Dulcis Fidium Harmoniæ'' op. 4 (Augsburg 1703) – eight string sonatas *''Memnon sacer ab oriente'' op. 5 (Augsburg 1709) – Vesper psalms *''Alaudæ V'' op. 6 (1711) – five masses *''Aquila clangens'' op. 7 (Passau 1719) – twelve offertories *''Cymbalum Davidis'' op. 8 (Passau 1728) – four Vesper psalms *''Miserere pro tempore quadragesimae'' op. 9 (unpublished, 1724) *''Concerto o parthia della cortesia'' *''Kommt, beschaut die Weisoheit'' – Pastorella-Trio sonata *''Litaniae Lauretanae'' *''Requiem'' in C major (1738) *''Serenada della pace'' in C major *''Sonata gloriosa''

References

For references see the references in the

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on German Wikipedia.

External links

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Sound-bites from Concors discordia op. 2
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