Johann andreas schachtner biography of barack
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A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Schachtner, Johann Andreas
17, 1777) in the church-choir at Ingolstadt, where he was brought up in the Jesuit school.
Johann andreas schachtner biography of barack
He died in 1795. He was a thorough musician (much greater knowledge was required to play the trumpet then than now) and had literary tastes besides. Being intimate with the Mozart family he watched with great interest the extraordinary early development of Wolfgang's genius, and 20 years later wrote, at the request of Mozart's sister, a letter[1]to which we owe a host of characteristic and touching details.
His affection was fully returned, for 'Wolfgangerl' would ask him a dozen times a day if he was really fond of him, and when Schachtner would sometimes in fun say 'No,' the tears would start into his eyes 'so loving and so tender was his little heart.' When the two were carryin