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They were able to pursue this interest following Nissen's retirement from the Danish civil service, when the couple moved to Salzburg (where Mozart had lived for much of his life up to age 25). Both he and Constanze had a strong interest in Mozart biography. Georg Nikolaus Nissen was the second husband of Mozart's wife Constanze. According to William Stafford, the work is "almost entirely plagiarized from Schlichtegroll, Niemetschek, and perhaps Rochlitz" Stafford does not trust any other material that appears in this work, though he notes that some of it was adopted for appearance in later Mozart biographies. Arnold, an author of Gothic novels, wrote Mozart's Geist, published in Erfurt in 1803. They continue to play a role in forming the popular image of the composer. However, since the research of Maynard Solomon in 1991, Mozart scholars have considered Rochlitz's stories so contaminated by Rochlitz's own fictional additions that they must be considered completely unreliable. Motivated by the wish to publicize the company's edition in progress of the composer's works, he published a number of anecdotes about Mozart, many of them vivid and entertaining.

Friedrich Rochlitz, portrait by Veit Hanns Schnorr von Carolsfeld, c 1820įriedrich Rochlitz was the editor of the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung (AMZ), a journal published by Breitkopf & Hartel.