Mozarts Leben - Schlichtegroll, Friedrich 1765-1822 (Grätz Hubeck, 1794)
Adolf Heinrich Friedrich Schlichtegroll, from 1808 von Schlichtegroll, was Mozart's first biographer, a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, philologist, numismatist and archaeologist.
Frontispiece engraving by Clemens Kohl, Vienna 1793: portrait of Mozart: bust-length, standing in profile to right, wearing queue wig, jacket, neckerchief and frill; in oval frame surmounted by laurel and oak swags, on pedestal flanked by lyre, trumpet and sheet music.
Handwritten annotations: the title page has a translation into Dutch of the Cicero citation; two sentences are crossed out on pages 30-31 (one referring to Mozart's profligacy, the other to his follies and excesses). The complete text is offered on one of the inserts.
on p.30 and 31: some parts (about Mozart's less lofty traits) rendered illegible.
Originally published as a chapter in 'Nekrolog auf das Jahr 1791', then as a separate book in 1793
Dedication (manuscript) on title page: "An Julie Tutein Nolthenius". Nolthenius (also: Tutein Nolthenius) is a Dutch family that produced preachers, soldiers and Calvé administrators. The genealogy begins with Rev. Heintich Nolthen (†1580). His son Rev. Joergen Nolthenius (†1590) settled in the Netherlands. In 1804, Willem Hendrik Nolthenius (1776-1827) married Julie Tutein (1783-1865); their children, living in 1856, took the name Tutein Nolthenius. Musical family members were: Hugo Nolthenius (1848-1929), conductor and classicist, Elsa Nolthenius (1884-1964), pianist, Hugo Nolthenius (1892-1979), cellist and classical scholar, Hélène Nolthenius (1920-2000), musicologist and writer.
Keywords: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus -- 1756-1791; 18th Century (1701-1800); Biography; Composer; Pianist; Violinist; Austria