Gregor Aichinger

Gregor Aichinger (* 1564 in Regensburg, † February 21, 1628 in Augsburg ) was a German composer of the late Renaissance.

Life

Gregor Aichinger went to Munich in 1577 in boyhood, as a pupil of Orlando di Lasso. He studied from 1578 at the University of Ingolstadt, where he came into contact with his fellow students Jakob Fugger, who later became Prince-Bishop of Constance. Aichinger received by this encounter, contacts with other members of the Fugger family, to whom he devoted many of his later works. An important patron Aichinger was James III. Fugger (1542-1598), who in 1584 appointed him organist, on the four years previously donated by his organ at the Basilica of St. Ulrich and Afra in Augsburg, and Aichinger made ​​to his house composer and conductor of his chamber music. Fugger enabled Aichinger several trips to Italy. In Venice he was one of the first pupils of Giovanni Gabrieli and converted probably in this period from Protestant to the Catholic faith.

A new holiday granted him Fugger in 1588 to pursue at the University of Ingolstadt philosophical and theological studies. 1600 undertook Aichinger a trip to Rome, where he was probably ordained a priest. In Augsburg got a job as a canon and Cathedral's choir at St. Gertrude, a point which was endowed with many rich benefices. An epitaph in the Augsburg cathedral cloister, recognizes him as " vir ater pietatem et caeteras virtutes tum tum suavitate musicae artis peritia et morum elegantia et Facilitate Mirifice gratus ". His extensive library, consisting consisted of musicology, but also geographical, theological and botanical works of famous authors, came to the cathedral chapter and later parts of the Staatsbiblotheken Augsburg and Munich.

Work

Aichinger wrote numerous works for church use, but especially vocal works in Latin, he also sat as a Gabrielischüler the Venetian polychorality. (including his first release, the four - to ten -part Sacrae cantiones Venice, 1590). Later, he also composed works with basso continuo, it occurs for the first time in 1607 in his Cantiones Eccleiasticae and 1609 in the Divina laudes on. Aichinger contributed significantly to improving these style, then called Nuovo musiche to establish itself in the German language area.

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