Aufschnaiter, Benedikt Anton 02/21/1665 - 01/24/1742

Benedikt Anton Aufschnaiter, also Benedictus Antonius Auffschneiter (baptized February 21, 1665 in Kitzbühel; buried January 24, 1742 in Passau) was an Austrian composer of the Baroque period.
Benedikt Aufschnaiter received most of his musical training in Vienna where he resided for several years and held a position in a chapel close to the imperial court. On January 16, 1705, he was finally appointed by Cardinal-Prince-Bishop Johann Philipp Graf Lamberg to succeed the late Kapellmeister Georg Muffat at the court in Passau. He died there in January 1742.

Aufschnaiter was married twice. He had a son from his second marriage.
Möst of Aufschnaiter's approximately 300 surviving individual works are of a sacred nature. In his ''Regulæ Fundamentales Musurgiæ'' he cites Giacomo Carissimi, Orlando di Lasso, Johann Caspar von Kerll, and Adam Gumpelzhaimer as his role models.