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 .