AICHINGER, GREGOR (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.
Initial text from 1911 encyclopedia