Gregor Aichinger (c. 1565 – 21 January 1628) was a German composer.

Life

He was

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to the

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family of

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in 1584. In 1599 he went for a two-year visit to

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for musical, rather than religious reasons, although he had taken holy orders before his appointment under the Fuggers. Proske, in the preface to vol. 2 of his ''Musica Divina'', calls him a priest of

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, and is inclined to give him the palm for the devout and ingenuous mastery of his style. Certainly this impression is fully borne out by the beautiful and somewhat quaint works included in that great anthology.

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* * 1560s births 1628 deaths Renaissance composers German classical composers German Baroque composers German classical organists German male organists People from Regensburg 17th-century classical composers German male classical composers 17th-century male musicians Male classical organists {{organist-stub