By 1785, Mozart was a commercial success. Publishers were keen to market his recent works, and even some older pieces written while he was still in the employ of the Salzburg archbishop. This enviable public status must have been especially gratifying to Leopold Mozart, who spent some ten weeks with his son in Vienna during the spring of 1785 attending concerts at which Wolfgang played his own compositions. Leopold could not fail to have noticed the significant exposure his son's printed works were receiving in the Viennese press. During the period 11 February – 25 April 1785, when Leopold was in the capital, at least eight press announcements appeared advertising Mozart's works for sale, including the following placed by Artaria, announcing the three Piano Concertos, K.413–15:

Also issued during Leopold's stay in Vienna was a keyboard arrangement of items from Die Entfilhrung aus dem Serail, available in manuscript copy from the Court Theatre copyist Wenzel Sukowaty for 15 fl. (advertised in the Wiener Zeitung on 16 April), and from the copyist and music-distributor, Lorenz Lausch, who published an itemised list of numbers from Die Entführung and prices in the Provinzialnachrichten Wien the following week. Leopold refers to the published piano version of the opera in his letter to Nannerl Mozart of 12 March: