Benedikt Anton Aufschnaiter
Benedikt Anton Aufschnaiter was an Austrian Baroque composer.
Aufschnaiter received much of his musical education in Vienna, 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 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 Giacomo Carissimi, Orlande de Lassus, Johann Kaspar Kerll and Adam Gumpelzhaimer as his idols.Theoretical works
- Regulæ Fundamentales Musurgiæ
Compositions
- Concors discordia op. 2 – six serenades for orchestra
- Dulcis Fidium Harmoniæ op. 4 – eight string sonatas
- Memnon sacer ab oriente op. 5 – Vesper psalms
- Alaudæ V op. 6 – five masses
- Aquila clangens op. 7 – twelve offertories
- Cymbalum Davidis op. 8 – four Vesper psalms
- Miserere pro tempore quadragesimae op. 9
- Concerto o parthia della cortesia
- Kommt, beschaut die Weisoheit – Pastorella-Trio sonata
- Litaniae Lauretanae
- Requiem in C major
- Serenada della pace in C major
- Sonata gloriosa
