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 Aichinger, Gregor

 GREGOR AICHINGER (c. 1565-1628), one of the greatest German composers of the Golden Age. He was organist to the Fugger family of Augsburg in 1584.  In 1599 he went for a two years’ visit to Rome.  This was for musical and not for ecclesiastical reasons, though he had taken orders before his appointment under Fugger.  Proske, in the preface to vol. ii. of his Musica Divina, calls him a priest of Regensburg, 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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