Benedict Anton Aufschnaiter (baptised 21 February 1665, Kitzbühel – buried 24 January 1742, Passau) was an Austrian Baroque composer.

Aufschnaiter received much of his musical education in Vienna, where he lived for several years. Later he got a post at the band near to the emperor's court. On 16 January 1705, he was appointed Kapellmeister at the Passau court by Bishop-Cardinal Johann Philipp von Lamberg as a successor to Georg Muffat. Aufschnaiter died there in January 1742.

He was married twice and from the second marriage, he had a son.

Most of Aufschnaiter's 300 surviving works are sacred. In his Regulæ Fundamentales Musurgiæ, he named Giacomo Carissimi, Orlande de Lassus, Johann Kaspar Kerll and Adam Gumpelzhaimer as his idols.

• Regulæ Fundamentales Musurgiæ (Fundamental rules on composing good music)

• Concors discordia op. 2 (Nürnberg 1695) – six serenades for orchestra
• Dulcis Fidium Harmoniæ op. 4 (Augsburg 1703) – eight string sonatas
• Memnon sacer ab oriente op. 5 (Augsburg 1709) – Vesper psalms
• Alaudæ V op. 6 (1711) – five masses
• Aquila clangens op. 7 (Passau 1719) – twelve offertories
• Cymbalum Davidis op. 8 (Passau 1728) – four Vesper psalms
• Miserere pro tempore quadragesimae op. 9 (unpublished, 1724)
• Concerto o parthia della cortesia
• Kommt, beschaut die Weisoheit – Pastorella-Trio sonata
• Litaniae Lauretanae
• Requiem in C major (1738)
• Serenada della pace in C major
• Sonata gloriosa

For references see the references in the article on German Wikipedia.

• Sound carrier of Benedict Anton Aufschnaiter in the German National Library catalogue
• Free scores by Benedict Anton Aufschnaiter at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
• Sound-bites from Concors discordia op. 2
• Discography Archived 2016-05-07 at the Wayback Machine