Benedikt Anton Aufschnaiter (baptised 21 February 1665,

Kitzbühel Kitzbühel (, also: ; ) is a medieval town situated in the Kitzbühel Alps along the river Kitzbüheler Ache in Tyrol, Austria, about east of the state capital Innsbruck and is the administrative centre of the Kitzbühel district (). Kitzbühel ...

– buried 24 January 1742,

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) was an Austrian Baroque composer. Aufschnaiter received much of his musical education in

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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

court by Bishop-Cardinal

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as a successor to Georg Muffat. Aufschnaiter died there in January 1742. He was married twice and from the second marriage, he had a son. Most of Aufschnaiter's 300 surviving works are sacred. In his ''Regulæ Fundamentales Musurgiæ'', he named

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and

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as his idols.

List of selected works

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*''Cymbalum Davidis'' op. 8 (Passau 1728) – four Vesper psalms *''Miserere pro tempore quadragesimae'' op. 9 (unpublished, 1724) *''Concerto o parthia della cortesia'' *''Kommt, beschaut die Weisoheit'' – Pastorella-Trio sonata *''Litaniae Lauretanae'' *''Requiem'' in C major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''

References

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on German Wikipedia.

External links

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