Born: Sep­tem­ber 29, 1753, Reich­en­au (near Zit­tau), Ger­ma­ny.

Died: Feb­ru­a­ry 16, 1823, Leipz­ig, Ger­ma­ny.

Schicht stu­died or­gan un­der Jo­hann Trier at Zit­tau, and played in the Gross­es Con­cert and the Mu­sik­übende Ge­sell­schaft while at­tend­ing the Un­i­ver­si­ty of Leip­zig. He be­came the Ge­wand­haus con­cert di­rect­or in 1785, and Kan­tor of Leip­zig’s Thom­as­schule in 1810. His works in­clude:

Sources

Music

  1. Ascendit Deus
  2. Manna

If you know Schicht’s bur­i­al place