Johann Anton André

Johann Anton André ( born October 6, 1775 in Offenbach am Main, † April 6, 1842 same place ) was a German composer and music publisher.

Life

Johann Anton André received violin and piano lessons from his father Johann André. From 1787 to 1789 he was a pupil of Ferdinand Fränzl and a further two years with his father Ignaz Fränzl, the violinist and the Mannheim court music. He studied composition André beginning of the 1790s with Johann Georg Vollweiler. André has composed two operas, symphonies, fairs, instrumental concertos, chamber music, piano music, songs and unfinished in two volumes " textbook Tonsetzkunst ".

In 1799 he bought the musical legacy of Mozart 's widow Constanze by and took him from Vienna to Offenbach. The collection of over 270 autographs contained, among other things, the opera Figaro and The Magic Flute, a number of string quartets and quintets, some piano concertos and the Serenade " A Little Night Music ". This collection was in the following decades, the basis for the Mozart editions of the publisher Johann André, which, if no arrangements exist to be characterized by extreme accuracy compared to the original musical manuscript. This accuracy is now often lost handwritten documents has, for musicological research of great importance. In total, by the publisher Johann André - before and after Johann Anton André death - published 79 first editions of Mozart's works.

Also in 1799 met Johann Anton André in the Munich court musician Franz Gleissner, who arranged the Mozart estate, and Senefelder, the inventor of lithography. André acquired by contract the rights to this new printing process. Thus, the new production method was first held in Offenbach for banknote production for commercial application, and Mozart's piano concertos were from 1800, the first lithographic printed music.

The still family-owned publisher Johann André as part of today's music house André in Offenbach had been founded by Johann Anton André father, Johann André in 1774. The family itself had come at the beginning of the 18th century as a Huguenot refugee family to Offenbach and operated a silk weaving. In 1839 the music publisher went into the hands of Johann Anton André son Johann August (* March 2, 1817; † October 29, 1887 ) on. In the aftermath of the hitherto almost completely kept in Offenbach am Main reduction of Mozart's score manuscripts was dissolved by inheritances.

Johann Anton André, of the Protestant faith, was married on September 10, 1801 in Darmstadt Marie Julienne born Hegar, the daughter of the Director General of the Hessian State Lottery Ernst Friedrich Hegar and his wife Anna Elisabeth nee Kleinschmidt. In 1808 he was through Frankfurt Masonic " Socrates for steadfastness " was added to the Freemasons. After the founding of Offenbach Lodge " Carl and Charlotte to faithfulness " in 1812, he joined this short time later.

1813 Johann Anton André was appointed Isenburg - Birsteinschen real Councilor. Until 1830 he was a member of the Second Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse for the electoral district of Offenbach.

Due to the merits of Johann Anton André to Mozart's work desk, for example, first cataloging of the estate ( as the foundations of the later Köchel directory) - the city of Offenbach am Main was recorded prior to the Mozart Year 2006 in the Pan-European " club European Mozart Ways ", which in Offenbach am Main, a number of studies were initiated to document the historical musicological importance of the city at European level. A basic tenet of this research is the historical archive of the publisher Johann André, in which, although no longer the original manuscripts, for example the earliest printed editions after these manuscripts are available. In the House of History in Offenbach am Main Exhibits to Johann Anton André 's life and work are available.