The pianist-composer Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760-1812) was one of the most famous musicians of his day. Despite his notoriety and fame, however, and the large number of compositions published in his lifetime, Dussek and his music were largely forgotten after his death. While scholarship has often argued that Dussek has been unjustly neglected, there has been little analysis of what may have contributed to this neglect, and what this potentially reveals about nineteenth-century music historiography.