Benedikt Anton Aufschnaiter

Benedikt Anton Aufschnaiter , also Benedictus Antonius Auffschneiter (baptized February 21, 1665 in Kitzbühel ; buried January 24, 1742 in Passau ) was an Austrian composer of the Baroque era .

Life

Benedikt Aufschnaiter received most of his musical training in Vienna , where he lived for several years and held a position at a band close to the imperial court. On January 16, 1705 he was finally appointed by the Cardinal Prince-Bishop Johann Philipp Graf Lamberg to succeed the late Kapellmeister Georg Muffat at the court of Passau. He died there in January 1742.

Aufschnaiter was married twice; his second marriage resulted in a son.

Most of Aufschnaiter's 300 or so individual works are of a spiritual nature. In his Regulæ Fundamentales Musurgiæ he mentions Giacomo Carissimi , Orlando di Lasso , Johann Caspar von Kerll and Adam Gumpelzhaimer as his role models.

Works (selection)

Music theory writings

Regulæ Fundamentales Musurgiæ ("Instructions or fundamental rules for composing good music")

Compositions

Concors Discordia op. 2, Nuremberg 1695 (six serenades for orchestra)
Dulcis Fidium Harmoniæ op.4 , Augsburg 1703 (eight four-part church sonatas )

Memnon sacer ab oriente op. 5, Augsburg 1709, Vesperpsalmen

Alaudæ V op. 6, Augsburg 1711, five masses

Aquila clangens op. 7, Passau 1719, twelve offerings

Cymbalum Davidis op.8 , Passau 1728, four Vesper psalms

literature

Arrey von Dommer : Aufschnaiter, Benedict . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 655.
Heinrich Bauer: Aufschnaiter, Benedict Anton. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 443 f. ( Digitized version ).

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personal data
SURNAME	Aufschnaiter, Benedikt Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian composer
DATE OF BIRTH	baptized February 21, 1665
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kitzbühel
DATE OF DEATH	buried January 24, 1742
Place of death	Passau