Benedikt Anton Aufschnaiter
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Kitzbühel
-Demographic evolution:-Personalities:*Karl Wilhelm von Dalla Torre , entomologist and botanist*Alfons Walde , expressionist painter and architect*Peter Aufschnaiter , mountaineer and geographer...
– buried 24 January 1742, Passau
Passau
Passau is a town in Lower Bavaria, Germany. It is also known as the Dreiflüssestadt or "City of Three Rivers," because the Danube is joined at Passau by the Inn from the south and the Ilz from the north....
) was an Austrian Baroque composer.
Aufschnaiter got much of his musical education in Vienna
Vienna
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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 Passau court by Bishop-Cardinal Johann Philipp von Lamberg as a successor of deceased Georg Muffat
Georg Muffat
-Life:He was born in Megève, Savoy, , and of Scottish descent. He studied in Paris with Jean Baptiste Lully between 1663 and 1669, then became an organist in Molsheim and Sélestat. Later, he studied law in Ingolstadt, afterwards settling in Vienna...
. He died there in January 1742.
He was married twice and from the second marriage, he had a son.
The most from Aufschnaiter's about 300 surviving works are sacred works. In his Regulæ Fundamentales Musurgiæ, he named Giacomo Carissimi
Giacomo Carissimi
Giacomo Carissimi was an Italian composer, one of the most celebrated masters of the early Baroque, or, more accurately, the Roman School of music.-Biography:...
, Orlande de Lassus
Orlande de Lassus
Orlande de Lassus was a Franco-Flemish composer of the late Renaissance...
, Johann Kaspar Kerll
Johann Kaspar Kerll
Johann Kaspar Kerll was a German baroque composer and organist.Son of an organist, he showed outstanding musical abilities at an early age, and was taught by Giovanni Valentini, court Kapellmeister at Vienna. Kerll became one of the most acclaimed composers of his time, known both as a gifted...
and Adam Gumpelzhaimer as his idols.
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