Faisst, Immanuel (Gottlob Friedrich) (1823–1894)

German organist and composer. He studied theology at Tübingen University, but gave it up, on Mendelssohn's advice, for music, in which he was self-taught. He travelled as an organist and settled at Stuttgart, where he founded an organ school in 1847 and a society for the study of church music; he was one of the founders of the Conservatory there. He also wrote about and edited music.

Works cantata Des Sängers Wiederkehr, choral setting of Schiller's Die Macht des Gesanges; double fugue for piano; organ works; vocal quartets.