Education
He studied at Mannheim with Ignaz Holzbauer and Georg Joseph Vogler before going to the University of Würzburg.
He studied at Mannheim with Ignaz Holzbauer and Georg Joseph Vogler before going to the University of Würzburg.
Some sources give his first name as Josef rather than Johann)
He then became private secretary and tutor to the Regierungs-präsident at Regensburg in 1786, before going on to be cabinet secretary to Georg I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. They had several children. He composed orchestral and chamber works, songs and Singspiele.
His main work was the Singspiel Die Geisterinsel after Shakespeare"s The Tempest.
According to Goretzki/Krickenberg (see sources below), the song "Schlafe mein Prinzchen Schlaf ein", often attributed to Mozart (KV350) or Bernhard Flies, was composed by Fleischmann. Fleischmann (1794–1886), had a son F.C.W. Alexander J. Fleischmann (1826–1891).
Alexander J. Fleischmann translated the book Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy into German. („Ein Rückblick aus dem Jahre 2000 auf das Jahr 1887“, Wiegand, Leipzig 1890).
During one year seven editions were printed.
Bachelor of Arts Johanna Müller (artist name: Müller-Koburg, 1860–1947), daughter of Alexander Fleischmann, was a writer, painter and translator. She painted landscapes (Baltic Sea, Berlin, Coburg and the artist colony Ahrenshoop).