Johannes X. Schachtner is a composer, conductor, pianist and arranger (eg Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Puccini) with an extraordinarily large repertoire.
Johann Andreas was a writer, known for Zaida (1965) and Mozart: Zaide (2008)....
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. He died in 1795.
The friend, a trumpet player named Johann Andreas Schachtner, said he and Leopold were looking at a blotchy effort by the young Wolfgang to.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