Benedikt Anton Aufschnaiter
Austrian composer
Died when: 76 years 337 days (923 months)Star Sign: Pisces
Benedikt Anton Aufschnaiter (baptised 21 February 1665, Kitzbühel – buried 24 January 1742, Passau) 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.
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