A popular artist in his own right, he is today mostly remembered for being the father of confidence trickster and actress Adele Spitzeder.
[1] His entry in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie quotes a contemporary source as saying that he was born in 1795, similarly in Bonn,[2] while the Directory of German Biography gives his birth year as 1796 and his place of birth as Kassel.
[3] Both were hired together in 1819 to play at the Theater an der Wien where Spitzeder excelled in buffo roles.
[1] After the death of his first wife during childbirth in 1828, he married the opera singer Betty Vio.
[3] Spitzeder died on 13 December 1832 in Munich, shortly after being called to work at the Bavarian State Opera.