Benedikt Anton Aufschnaiter

Benedict Anton Aufschnaiter ( baptized February 21, 1665 in Kitzbuehel, buried January 24, 1742 in Passau) was an Austrian composer of the Baroque.

Aufschnaiter learned much of his musical education in Vienna, where he lived for several years, eventually occupying a position at one of the imperial court related Chapel. On January 16 In 1705 he was summoned to the court to Passau by the Cardinal Prince-Bishop Johann Philipp Graf Lamberg as the successor of the late Kapellmeister Georg Muffat. He died there in January 1742.

Aufschnaiter was married twice; from his second marriage went forth a son.

Most of Aufschnaiter about 300 traditional individual works are spiritual in nature. In his regulae Fundamental Musurgiæ he leads Giacomo Carissimi, Orlando di Lasso, Johann Caspar von Kerll and Adam Gumpelzhaimer as his role models.

Works (selection)

Music Theoretical writings

Regulae Fundamental Musurgiæ ( " statement or fundamental rules to componieren a good music " )

Compositions

  • Concors discordia op 2, Nuremberg in 1695 ( six Serenades for Orchestra)
  • Dulcis Fidium Harmoniae op 4, Augsburg 1703 ( eight church sonatas )
  • Memnon sacer from oriente op 5, Augsburg 1709 Vesper Psalms
  • Alaudae V op 6, 1711, five Masses
  • Aquila clan gens op 7, Passau 1719, twelve Offertories
  • Cymbalum Davidis op 8, Passau 1728, four Vesper Psalms
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