Gregor Aichinger
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.
Initial text from 1911 encyclopedia