[2] The young Joachim Daniel impressed the guests by speaking perfectly French, German, and Danish, reciting poetries, singing, and playing the piano or the violin.

His good looks and hard work helped him becoming rapidly a popular actor, able to play both tragic or comic roles, or deceitful ones such as Tartuffe by Molière or Loki in the Death of Baldur by Johannes Ewald.

[3] On 16 April 1792, he left hastily Copenhagen with a young debutante, played for a while theatre in Germany, remarried later actress Wilhelmine Caroline Reimann, and finished his career - greatly diminished- as a prompter at the Danish Royal Theater[2] Preisler published a journal in two volumes of his travels in which he describes his encounters with several of the day's celebrities.

- His wife cut quill-pens for the copyist, a pupil composed, a little boy aged four walked about in the garden and sang recitatives - in short, everything that surrounded this splendid man was music.

He is writing church music in Vienna and inasmuch as the Singspiel (Operette) has come to an end he has nothing more to do with the theater"[5] In 1802 Preisler published a play called Die Invaliden oder der Triumph des 2.