Gerber, Ernst Ludwig, Neues historisch-biographisches Lexikon der Tonkünstler, Volume 4 (S–Z), Leipzig, 1814, column 110–112
Nicolaus was apparently a child prodigy: according to Ernst Ludwig Gerber, he could play the organ and compose competent works for keyboard and voice already at an early age.
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According to Ernst Ludwig Gerber, the court organist at Sondershausen in the time of Rothe's sons and grandsons, Rothe was born in Rosswein, Meissen, where his father was kapellmeister and who gave him his early training.