{{Infobox composer | name = Franz Joseph Aumann | birth_date = {{Birth date|1728|02|24|df=y}} | death_date = {{Death date and age|1797|03|30|1728|02|24|df=y}} }} {{Short description|Austrian composer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2023}} '''Franz Joseph Aumann''' (also ''Auman'', ''Aumon''; 24 February 1728, Traismauer – 30 March 1797, Sankt Florian) was an Austrian composer. Before his voice broke, he sang in the same Viennese choir as Michael Haydn and Johann Georg Albrechtsberger,<ref>''New Grove'', Volume 2{{Page needed|date=September 2010}}</ref> composers with whom he later in life traded manuscripts.<ref>Hawkshaw Paul (2007). '''90''' "Anton Bruckner's Counterpoint Studies at the Monastery of Saint Florian, 1845–55", 1 ''Musical Quarterly'', p. 94</ref> In view of this circulation, it is not surprising that some of his music has been incorrectly attributed to Haydn. However, his ''Missa Profana,'' satirizing the stuttering and bad singing of a schoolmaster, was once attributed to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.<ref>Abert, Spencer; Eisen, Hermann; Stewart, Cliff (2007). New Haven, Connecticut, ''W. A. Mozart'', Yale University Press, p. 772</ref>

Aumann was ordained a priest in the Augustinian Order in St. Florian in 1757, essentially staying there for the rest of his life. He wrote many mass settings.

Aumann's music was a large part of the repertoire at St. Florian in the 19th century, and Anton Bruckner availed himself of this resource for his studies of counterpoint.<ref>Hawkshaw (2007), p. 98</ref> Bruckner focused a lot of his attention on Aumann's Christmas responsories and an ''Ave Maria'' in D major.<ref>Hawkshaw (2007), p. 107</ref> Bruckner, who liked Aumann's coloured harmony, added in 1879 an accompaniment by three trombones to his settings of ''Ecce quomodo moritur justus'' and ''Tenebrae factae sunt''.<ref>Uwe Harten (1996), ''Anton Bruckner. Ein Handbuch''. {{Interlanguage link|Residenz Verlag|de}}, Salzburg, {{ISBN|3-7017-1030-9}}, p. 69</ref>

Aumann's oeuvre also includes instrumental music, such as some of the earliest string quintets.<ref>Eisen Cliff (1998). Madison, Wisconsin, ''Four Viennese String Quintets'', A-R Editions Inc., p. vii</ref>

==Works, editions and recordings== ;Recordings * Gunar Letzbor, ''Franz Joseph Aumann – Requiem'', St. Florianer Sängerknaben, Ars Antiqua Austria. Pan Classics PC 10234, 2008 (with Aumann's ''Ecce quomodo moritur justus'', ''Tenebrae factae sunt'' and ''Te Deum'')

== Notes == {{Reflist}}

{{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Aumann, Franz Joseph}} Category:1728 births Category:1797 deaths Category:18th-century Austrian Roman Catholic priests Category:18th-century Austrian classical composers Category:18th-century Austrian male musicians Category:People from St. Pölten District Category:Musicians from Lower Austria Category:Austrian male classical composers Category:Musicians from the Archduchy of Austria

{{Austria-composer-stub}}