Wenzel Müller

Wenzel Müller

Wenzel Müller (26 September 1767 – 3 August 1835) was an Austrian composer and conductor.

Life and career

Müller was born in Markt Türnau, in the Moravia.[1] He studied with Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf and performed as a theatre musician in his youth. In 1786 he became Kapellmeister at the Theater in der Leopoldstadt in Leopoldstadt, Vienna. After a short spell at the German theatre in Prague from 1807 until 1813 he returned to Leopoldstadt where he worked until 1830. Under his leadership, the theatre became one of the most important venues in Viennese musical life. He died in Baden bei Wien.

He was a popular and prolific composer producing more than 250 works. Although he wrote several popular stage works (mostly Singspiele), his art songs are his enduring legacy. Often possessing witty music and lyrics or expressing a great deal of tenderness, Müller's songs were immensely popular and some of the works he wrote with Ferdinand Raimund remain in the Viennese repertory.

His opera Die Schwestern von Prag provided the theme for Beethoven's "Kakadu Variations" for piano trio, Opus 121a. He is said to have composed what has been falsely known as Mozart's Twelfth Mass, K. Anh. 232, the Missa in G major K. Anh. 232 (C1.04).[2]

Müller was married twice and his second wife was Magdalena Valley Reining. He had children Therese (1791–1876), Caroline (1814–1868), Ottilia (1816–1817), Carl (born 1815) and Joseph (born 1816), all of whom became opera singers.[3]

Works

TitleGenreSub­divisionsLibrettoPremière datePlace, theatre
Harlekin auf dem Parade Beth oder Nach dem Schlimmen folgt das Gutegroße Pantomime BaumannAnton Baumann17841784; 14 May 1790Brno; Vienna, Theater in der Leopoldstadt
SonnenfestDas Sonnenfest der Braminenheroisch-komisches Singspiel2 actsHenslerKarl Friedrich Hensler1790-09-099 September 1790Vienna, Theater in der Leopoldstadt
Kaspar der Fagottist oder Die ZauberzitherSingspiel3 actsPerinetJoachim Perinet1791-06-088 June 1791Vienna, Theater in der Leopoldstadt
neueDas neue SonntagskindSingspiel2 actsPerinetJoachim Perinet, after Philipp Hafner1793-10-1010 October 1793Vienna, Theater in der Leopoldstadt
SchwesternDie Schwestern von PragSingspiel2 actsPerinetJoachim Perinet, after Philipp Hafner1794-03-1111 March 1794Vienna, Theater in der Leopoldstadt
lustigeDas lustige BeylagerSingspiel2 actsPerinetJoachim Perinet, after Philipp Hafner1797-02-1414 February 1797Vienna, Theater in der Leopoldstadt
TeufelsDie Teufels Mühle am WienerbergSchauspiel mit Gesang4 actsHenslerCarl Friedrich Hensler/Leopold Huber1799-11-1212 November 1799Vienna, Theater in der Leopoldstadt
BelagerungDie Belagerung von Ypsilon oder Evakathel und SchnudiKarikaturoperette2 actsPerinetJoachim Perinet, after Philipp Hafner1804-05-044 May 1804Vienna, Theater in der Leopoldstadt
JavimaOper3 acts 1807-05-2121 May 1807 PragueVienna, Theater in der Leopoldstadt
SamsonMelodram3 actsSchusterJoseph Anton Schuster18081808Vienna, Theater in der Leopoldstadt
Simon Plattkopf, der UnsichtbareSingspiel1 actCostenobleCarl Ludwig Costenoble18091809Vienna, Theater in der Leopoldstadt
WunderlampeDie WunderlampeZauberoper4 actsGleichJosef Alois Gleich18101810Prague
FiakerDer Fiaker al Marquiskomische Oper3 actsBäuerleAdolf Bäuerle1816-02-1010 February 1816Vienna, Theater in der Leopoldstadt
Aline oder Wien in einem andern WelttheilZauberoper3 actsBäuerleAdolf Bäuerle1822-10-099 October 1822Vienna, Theater in der Leopoldstadt
BarometerDer Barometermacher auf der ZauberinselZauberposse2 actsRaimundFerdinand Raimund1823-12-1818 December 1823Vienna, Theater in der Leopoldstadt
schwarzeDer schwarze See oder Der Blasebalgmacher und der GeistZauberspiel2 actsLenz?1825-02-044 February 1825Vienna, Theater in der Leopoldstadt
JosefHerr Josef und Frau BaberlPosse3 actsGleich1826-05-1111 May 1826Vienna, Theater in der Leopoldstadt
gefesselteDie gefesselte PhantasieZauberspiel2 actsRaimundFerdinand Raimund1828-01-088 January 1828Vienna, Theater in der Leopoldstadt
AlpenDer Alpenkönig und der Menschenfeindromantisch-komisches Zauberspiel2 actsRaimundFerdinand Raimund1828-10-1717 October 1828Vienna, Theater in der Leopoldstadt

References

  1. ↑ http://www.ceskyhudebnislovnik.cz/slovnik/index.php?option=com_mdictionary&action=record_detail&id=3219
  2. ↑ Leeson, Daniel N. (2004). Opus Ultimum: The Story of the Mozart Requiem. pp. 99–100.
  3. ↑ "Grünbaum, Therese". Retrieved 29 February 2012.

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