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GREGOR AICHINGER (c. 1565-1628)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 434 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AICHINGER (c. 1565-1628)  , one of the greatest See also:German composers of the See also:Golden See also:Age . He was organist to the See also:Fugger See also:family of See also:Augsburg in 1584 . In 1599 he went for a two years' visit to See also:Rome . This was for musical and not for ecclesiastical reasons, though he had taken orders before his See also:appointment under Fugger . Proske, in the See also:preface to vol. ii. of his Musica Divina, calls him a See also:priest of See also:Regensburg, and is inclined to give him the See also:palm for the devout and ingenuous mastery of his See also:style . Certainly this impression is fully See also:borne out by the beautiful and somewhat See also:quaint See also:works included in that See also:great See also:anthology .

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