13 Facts About Georg Nissen

Georg Nikolaus von Nissen was a Danish diplomat and music historian.

Georg Nissen is the author of one of the first biographies of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, still used today as a scholarly source.

Georg Nissen completed his schooling in 1781 and became "authorized agent of the General Post Office" in Copenhagen in 1781.

In 1797, while serving in this post, Georg Nissen first met Mozart's widow, Constanze, whose husband had died six years earlier in 1791.

Georg Nissen came to participate in these labours, taking over much of the work of negotiating with publishers.

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Georg Nissen helped care for the children, eventually taking "the role of a caring father" in the family.

Georg Nissen had long been planning a biography of Mozart, and the work began seriously in 1823.

Georg Nissen benefited greatly when Mozart's elderly older sister Nannerl gave him and Constanze a collection of about 400 Mozart family letters.

Georg Nissen worked assiduously to assemble all the biographical material he could, including interviews with people who had known the composer.

Georg Nissen's tombstone, naming him "The husband of Mozart's widow", can still be visited.

Georg Nissen's work attempted to achieve a compromise between Niemetschek's and Schlichtegroll's point of view.

Georg Nissen attempted to document everything that had been written about Mozart so far and to deliver an accurate description of Mozart's life based on primary sources, namely the letters of the Mozart family.

Georg Nissen deserves credit most of all for his efforts to collect all documents concerning Mozart, starting with the Mozart family's letters and including commemorative coins and monuments.