Franz Joseph Aumann

{{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}}

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{{Short description|Austrian composer}}

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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,New Grove, Volume 2{{Page needed|date=September 2010}} composers with whom he later in life traded manuscripts.Hawkshaw Paul (2007). 90 "Anton Bruckner's Counterpoint Studies at the Monastery of Saint Florian, 1845–55", 1 Musical Quarterly, p. 94 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.Abert, Spencer; Eisen, Hermann; Stewart, Cliff (2007). New Haven, Connecticut, W. A. Mozart, Yale University Press, p. 772

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.Hawkshaw (2007), p. 98 Bruckner focused a lot of his attention on Aumann's Christmas responsories and an Ave Maria in D major.Hawkshaw (2007), p. 107 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.Uwe Harten (1996), Anton Bruckner. Ein Handbuch. {{Interlanguage link|Residenz Verlag|de}}, Salzburg, {{ISBN|3-7017-1030-9}}, p. 69

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