Friedrich Ekkard (or Eckard, 1744–1819) was secretary of the university library in Göttingen and assistant to the famous historian August Ludwig von Schlözer. Ekkard’s Handbuch has its origins in an Akademischer Addreßkalender (later Akademische Nachrichten) which appeared in Erlangen at irregular intervals from 1755, listing the names and titles of faculty at German, Austrian, Swiss, Dutch and Swedish higher education institutions. The Handbuch is an expanded version that gives some details of the history and holdings of the institutions.

The passage above appears in the first volume of 1780 following a list of faculty at the University of Salzburg. The little-known Domenico Fischietti (c. 1725–after 1810) was appointed Kapellmeister in Salzburg in 1772, much to Leopold Mozart’s chagrin (Briefe, i:523). The idiosyncratic form of Wolfgang’s name begins “I[ohann] G[ottlieb]” (with Gottlieb equivalent to the Latin Amadeus and the French Amadè). As surprising as it may seem for the Mozarts to be “nicht bekannt,” they had little profile as music teachers. Although Leopold was the author of the eighteenth century’s most famous violin treatise, and both he and his son taught the Cathedral’s choirboys and private students, with few exceptions the family regarded this aspect of their duties with little enthusiasm.

The second volume of 1782 mentions three further Kunst-Lehrer from Salzburg: Michael Haydn (“lehrt Tonsezzen [sic]”), Anton Spizeder (“lehrt Singen und Clavier”) and Antonio Brunetti (“lehrt Violine”).