Johann Georg Gerhard Schmitt, in French Jean-Georges Gérard Schmitt, was a Paris-based composer and organist, originally from the Prussian Lower Rhine province.
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Johann Georg Gerhard Schmitt, in French Jean-Georges Gérard Schmitt, was a Paris-based composer and organist, originally from the Prussian Lower Rhine province. He was only 14 when he took over as organist at Trier Cathedral: the position had fallen vacant three years earlier through the early death of the previous incumbent, his father.
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Musicians
Type
Singer / Musician
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1821 to 1900 · aged 79
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