AICHINGER, GREGOR. — Composer, born in Ratisbona in 1564, died in Augusta on 21 January 1628. He studied at Ingolstadt, served as organist to Giacomo Fugger and at S. Ulrico ed Afra in Augusta; in the years 1584–87 he travelled in Italy for purposes of study, chiefly to Venice with Giovanni Gabrieli, and to Rome; in Augusta he was vicarius of the cathedral choir and a canon of S. Gertrude.
A highly prolific composer of religious polyphonic music, marked by classical simplicity and purity, among which the following should be remembered: the Sacrae cantiones for 4 to 10 voices (5 books, 1590–97), various Cantiones ecclesiasticae for several voices (1607–1609), Lacrymae D. Virginis et Johannis (1604), Tricinia Mariana (1598), numerous Masses, Magnificats, and various religious compositions.