Career
He was appointed organist to the Altenburg court in 1617, and held the post until his retirement on 5 May 1658. He was successful and respected, and aside from playing the organ, directed the newly founded Hofkapelle, despite the strictures of the Thirty Years" War. His only known organ compositions are in a set of variations on Allein Gott in der Höh science Ehr made collaboratively in 1614 by Sweelinck and others
The six variations include three by Scheidt and three anonymous, which may be by him.
This work belongs to the tradition of the North German school. Modern editions are found by H.J. Moser (Kassel, 1953), and G. Gerdes, in 46 Choräle für Orgel von Justice of the Peace Sweelinck und seinen deutschen Schülern (Mainz, 1957).
His other compositions are all occasional vocal works: Pia vota et hortulanae devotionis amicor, a wedding aria (1646). Selig sind die Toten, funeral music for Sophie Elisabeth, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Leipzig, 1650).
Another funeral work (1620), in South. Scheidt: Gesamtausgabe IV, educated
G. Harms (Klecken, 1933). And two works in Cantionale sacrum III (Gotha, 1648), in Schatz des liturgischen Chorund Gemeindegesangs III, educated L. Schoeberlein (Göttingen, 1872).