Johann andreas schachtner biography of barack

He was court trumpeter in Salzburg , and friend there of the family of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; he was also a librettist for Mozart. Schachtner was born in Dingolfing in Bavaria, and was educated at a Jesuit school in Ingolstadt. In Salzburg he studied the trumpet, and became in trumpeter to the Prince-Bishop.

He died in He

From he held the office of Spielgraf an official who mediated between the nobility and musicians. He knew the Mozart family in Salzburg, and played chamber music, as second violin, at the house of Wolfgang's parents. Years later he wrote, at the request of Mozart's sister Maria Anna Mozart , a letter dated 24 April , given in full in Otto Jahn 's biography of Mozart, vol.

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