Abblasen is a fanfare credited to Gottfried Reiche. There is a famous portrait of Reiche, by Haussmann, and in this portrait he is seen holding a piece of paper with two lines of melody written on it.

  Abblassen is a reconstruction of what appears to be on the manuscript in Haussmann's painting. We do not know if Reiche actually wrote the melody that appears in the painting, or indeed, if the version of Abblassen that is played today is a precise transcription of the manuscript.