Johann Anton André

Johann Anton André (6 October 1775 – 6 April 1842) was a German composer and music publisher of the Classical period,[1] best known for his central place in Mozart research.

[2] Born in Offenbach am Main, André wrote operas, symphonies, masses, and lieder, as well as an unfinished Lehrbuch der Tonsetzkunst (Textbook of the Art of Composition) in two volumes.

His teachers were Ferdinand Frenzel (violin) and Johann Georg Vollweiler (theory and composition).

In 1799, André purchased a large volume of Mozart's musical papers (the Mozart-Nachlass)[3] from the composer's widow Constanze, and brought them to Offenbach.

[6] The success of the firm turned crucially upon a meeting in Munich in 1799 between André and Alois Senefelder, the inventor of lithography.