Background
Johann André was born on March 28, 1741, in Offenbach am Main, Germany and died in Offenbach am Main.
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Johann André was born on March 28, 1741, in Offenbach am Main, Germany and died in Offenbach am Main.
Johann André was a German musician, composer and music publisher of the Classical period. He was a father of a musical family. Founder of the well-known music-publishing house at Offenbach.
He was an accomplished pianist, a composer of some 30 operas and “ Singspiele” (Der Topfer, Erwin and Elmire, Belmonte e Constanze Berlin, 1781, a year before Mozart’s], etc.), of many instrumental works and songs (Rheinweinlied, Bekranzt mit Lanb), and was the creator of the durchkomponirte Ballade, the first being “ Die Weiber von Weinsberg” (1783).
In 1774, as the patriarch of a Huguenot family, André founded one of the first music publishing houses to be independent of a bookshop, in Offenbach am Main. Among his closest friends in Offenbach were Goethe, at the time of his engagement to Anna Elisabeth Schönemann, and he is pictured in the seventeenth book of Goethe's autobiography Dichtung und Wahrheit with an Offenbach am Main background in 1775. Up to his death, his establishment issued about 1,200 numbers.
