Franz Josef Aumann (1728-1797) - Sinfonia ex C (1765)

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Composer: Franz Josef Aumann (1728-1797)
Work: 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)

Sinfonia ex C (1765)
1. Presto 0:00
2. Menuetto, Trio 3:27
3. Andante 6:01
4. Finale 10:05

Painting: Attributed to John Laguerre (1688-1748) - A fair, with a crowd gathered in a square by the Red Lion Inn
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Franz Josef (Franz-Seraph, Johann, Leopold) Aumann [Aumonn, Aumon, Auman]
(Traismauer, 24 February 1728 - St Florian, 30 March 1797)

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.