Born in
Herrenberg, Schick grew up mainly in
Schwäbisch Hall, and from 1981 studied 16 semesters musicology, history and philosophy at the
University of Tübingen, and from 1983 under
Ludwig Finscher at
Heidelberg University. In 1989, he was awarded a
doctorate for a thesis entitled
Studien zu Dvoráks Streichquartetten. From 1989 to 1996, he worked as a research assistant at the University of Tübingen, where he was
habilitated in 1996 with the study
Musikalische Einheit im italienischen Madrigal von Rore bis Monteverdi. He then taught until 1998 at the University of Tübingen, and was
contributing editor of ''''. He also taught at the and at the
University of Bern. In 1998, he became a university
lecturer at the University of Tübingen, but in 1999 and 2000 he moved to LMU Munich, where he succeeded
Theodor Göllner. Since 2011, Schick has been project manager of the "Kritischen Ausgabe der Werke von
Richard Strauss" and head of the Richard Strauss Complete Edition Research Unit at LMU Munich. == References ==