Johann André

Johann André ( born March 28, 1741 in Offenbach am Main, † June 18, 1799 ) was a German musician, composer and music publisher.

Life

1774 founded the silk producer and scion of a Huguenot family in Offenbach am Main, one of the first publishers in Germany, which were independent from the bookstore. He belonged to the closest Offenbacher Friends of Goethe during his courtship with Anna Elisabeth Beautiful man who is pictured in front of the Offenbacher background of the Year 1775, book 17 of Goethe's autobiography and fiction. In 1777 he was music director at the German Theatre in Berlin, but without Offenbach to turn their backs. André has composed about 30 operas, ballads and songs, including Christoph Friedrich Bretzner Belmonte and Constanze was, or: The Abduction from the Seraglio, the libretto of Mozart in the plagiarized The Abduction from the Seraglio.

His son Johann Anton André (1775-1842) came also out as a publisher, composer and music theorist.

The music store André and the music publisher Johann André with his extensive music library exist today in the Frankfurt street in Offenbach's city center.

Works (selection)

• Christoph Friedrich Bretzner: Belmont and Constanze, or: The Abduction from the Seraglio. An Operetta in drey files. Composes the Lord Andre Kapellmeister in Berlin.. Carl Friedrich Schneider, Leipzig 1781 dnb reprint: Hessian State Theatre in Wiesbaden: The Abduction from the Seraglio, Program Number 175, 1995 / 96th