Immanuel Faisst

Immanuel Gottlob Friedrich Faisst was a German composer and co-founder of the Stuttgart Music School, whose director he was, until his death. His compositions include works for organ, and some exercises on double fugue for piano, lieders, choruses, motets, cantatas, etc. Finally, along with Sigmund Lebert and Hans von Bülow, he published in 1881 the famous Cotta edition of the Beethoven Sonatas.

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Immanuel Faisst, a German organist, theorist, and composer, was a significant figure in German musical education during his lifetime. According to the Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (1886), Faisst founded a school for organists in Stuttgart in 1847, and later established a conservatory of music there in 1857, becoming its director in 1859. He was known for composing much music for the organ and authored several useful theoretical works, earning him a reputation as a well-known organist and educator in Germany. His pedagogical influence extended to notable pupils such as Karl F. Armbrust, who studied at the Stuttgart Conservatory, and Arpad Doppler, who studied theory under Faisst at the same institution, as recorded in A Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (1900). Faisst himself was a pupil of the esteemed German composer and organist Johann Gottlob Schneider, as noted in the Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (1886).