Franz Josef Aumann (1728-1797)
- Sinfonia ex C, à Violino 1, Violino 2, Alto Viola oblig.,
Clarino 1, Clarino 2, Tympano e Violone (1765)
Performers: Ars Antіqua Austria; Gunar Lеtzbοr (conductor)
Further info: Franz Josef Aumann (1728-1797) - Missa da Requiem
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Austrian composer. Following training as a chorister in the Jesuit
school in Vienna, where he befriended Johann Michael Haydn and Johann
Georg Albrechtsberger, he became an initiate in the Augustinian Order in
1753 and was ordained as a priest in 1757. At that time he was
appointed as regens chori of the monastery of St. Florian, where he
lived the rest of his life. His music circulated widely during his
lifetime, where it achieved a reputation for good command of
counterpoint, as well as the prevalent Neapolitan sacred musical style.
His 'Missa profana', sub-titled ‘a mass to satirize stuttering, bad
singing and the onerous office of a schoolmaster’, is attributed to
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and to Florian Gassmann in two Viennese copies,
but a manuscript of the work in Göttweig and a notice in the Vienna
Nationalbibliothek show it to be Aumann’s. His two 'Missae brevissimae'
are little disguised comments on the Josephian reform movement and his
'Missa Germanica' was one of the earliest Mass settings in the
vernacular. His works include 38 Masses, 12 Requiems, 29 Psalms, 25
Magnificats, 22 offertories, 10 litanies, eight responsories, seven
vespers, many other sacred motets and arias, four oratorios, two
Singspiels in Austrian dialect, numerous songs and canons, three
symphonies, and 25 serenades, divertimentos, and parthies. His music was
a distinct influence on Anton Bruckner who studied Aumann's
counterpoint.
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