Gregor Aichinger

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

Life

Epitaph for Gregor Aichinger in the Augsburg cathedral cloister
Coat of arms on the epitaph

Gregor Aichinger went to Munich as a boy in 1577 , as a pupil of Orlando di Lasso . From 1578 he studied at the University of Ingolstadt , where he came into contact with his fellow student Jakob Fugger , who later became Prince-Bishop of Constance. Through this encounter, Aichinger got in touch with other members of the Fugger family, to whom he later dedicated many of his works. An important patron of Aichinger was Jakob III. Fugger (1542–1598), who appointed him organist in 1584, at the organ he had donated four years earlier at the St. Ulrich and Afra Basilica in Augsburg , and made Aichinger his house composer and director of his chamber music. Fugger made several trips to Italy possible for Aichinger. In Venice he became one of Giovanni Gabrieli's first pupils and probably also converted from Protestant to Catholic during this time.

Fugger granted him another vacation in 1588 to pursue philosophical and theological studies at the University of Ingolstadt. In 1600 Aichinger made a trip to Rome, on which he was probably ordained a priest. In Augsburg received a position as canon and cathedral choir vicar to St. Gertrud, a position that was endowed with numerous rich benefices . An epitaph in the Augsburg cathedral cloister honors him as “ vir paeter pietatem et caeteras virtutes tum musicae artis peritia et suavitate tum morum elegantia et facilitate mirifice gratus ”. Its extensive library, consisting of musicological, but also geographical, theological and botanical works by famous authors, came to the cathedral chapter and later to the state libraries Augsburg and Munich.

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Aichinger wrote numerous works for ecclesiastical use, but above all vocal works in Latin, and as a Gabrieli student he also used the Venetian polychoir . (Among other things, his first publication the four- to ten-part Sacrae cantiones Venice, 1590). Later he also composed works with figured bass ; it appears for the first time in 1607 in his Cantiones Ecclesiasticae and in 1609 in the Divina laudes . Aichinger made a significant contribution to establishing this style, then called Nuovo musiche , in the German-speaking world.

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Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History of historical Fugger organ
  2. ↑ Aichinger's curriculum vitae ( memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the city lexicon Augsburg @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadtlexikon-augsburg.de
personal data
SURNAME Aichinger, Gregor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1564
PLACE OF BIRTH regensburg
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1628
Place of death augsburg