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

Aufschnaiter got 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 of deceased Georg Muffat. He died there in January 1742.

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

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

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