Johann André

Johann André (28 March 1741 – 18 June 1799) was a German musician, composer and music publisher of the Classical period.

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.

In 1777, André was appointed musical director at the German theatre in Berlin, the Deutsches Theater, without having to abandon Offenbach am Main, however.

She entrusted him with writing concluding measures to the overture to Don Giovanni, so that it could be performed in concert.