Franz Johann Gleissner

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Franz Johannes Gleissner (Neustadt, 1759 - Munich, 18 Sept 1818) was a German composer and lithographer. After early training in the seminary at Amberg he moved to Munich, where he continued studies in music and philosophy and became a court musician. There he met Alois Senefelder, the inventor of lithography, initially when he was commissioned to compose some songs in connection with Senefelder's theatrical activities. In 1796 Gleissner was approached by Senefelder to make commercial use of his method of relief printing from stone for the publication of music. Gleissner was the first to see the possibilities of this and had his 12 neue Lieder produced by it the same year. This was the beginning of a partnership that lasted over 20 years. Between 1796 and 1798 Senefelder and Gleissner printed music from etched stones, but in 1798 or early in 1799 Senefelder developed a chemical method of printing from stone, for which he and Gleissner were granted a 15-year privilege on 3 September 1799 by Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria. This was the planographic process now called lithography. An announcement of the privilege in a Munich newspaper on 26 September 1799 was seen by Johann Anton André, and within a month André entered into an agreement with Senefelder and Gleissner to set up a lithographic workshop in Offenbach. Lithographical music began to come off André’s presses early in 1800. As the first lithographer with a knowledge of music, Gleissner probably instructed André’s music eng

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