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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. 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).
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.
Works
Title | Genre | Subdivisions | Libretto | Première date | Place, theatre |
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Harlekin auf dem Parade Beth oder Nach dem Schlimmen folgt das Gute | große Pantomime | BaumannAnton Baumann | 17841784; 14 May 1790 | Brno; Vienna, Theater in der Leopoldstadt | |
SonnenfestDas Sonnenfest der Braminen | heroisch-komisches Singspiel | 2 acts | HenslerKarl Friedrich Hensler | 1790-09-099 September 1790 | Vienna, Theater in der Leopoldstadt |
Kaspar der Fagottist oder Die Zauberzither | Singspiel | 3 acts | PerinetJoachim Perinet | 1791-06-088 June 1791 | Vienna, Theater in der Leopoldstadt |
neueDas neue Sonntagskind | Singspiel | 2 acts | PerinetJoachim Perinet, after Philipp Hafner | 1793-10-1010 October 1793 | Vienna, Theater in der Leopoldstadt |
SchwesternDie Schwestern von Prag | Singspiel | 2 acts | PerinetJoachim Perinet, after Philipp Hafner | 1794-03-1111 March 1794 | Vienna, Theater in der Leopoldstadt |
lustigeDas lustige Beylager | Singspiel | 2 acts | PerinetJoachim Perinet, after Philipp Hafner | 1797-02-1414 February 1797 | Vienna, Theater in der Leopoldstadt |
TeufelsDie Teufels Mühle am Wienerberg | Schauspiel mit Gesang | 4 acts | HenslerCarl Friedrich Hensler/Leopold Huber | 1799-11-1212 November 1799 | Vienna, Theater in der Leopoldstadt |
BelagerungDie Belagerung von Ypsilon oder Evakathel und Schnudi | Karikaturoperette | 2 acts | PerinetJoachim Perinet, after Philipp Hafner | 1804-05-044 May 1804 | Vienna, Theater in der Leopoldstadt |
Javima | Oper | 3 acts | 1807-05-2121 May 1807 Prague | Vienna, Theater in der Leopoldstadt | |
Samson | Melodram | 3 acts | SchusterJoseph Anton Schuster | 18081808 | Vienna, Theater in der Leopoldstadt |
Simon Plattkopf, der Unsichtbare | Singspiel | 1 act | CostenobleCarl Ludwig Costenoble | 18091809 | Vienna, Theater in der Leopoldstadt |
WunderlampeDie Wunderlampe | Zauberoper | 4 acts | GleichJosef Alois Gleich | 18101810 | Prague |
FiakerDer Fiaker al Marquis | komische Oper | 3 acts | BäuerleAdolf Bäuerle | 1816-02-1010 February 1816 | Vienna, Theater in der Leopoldstadt |
Aline oder Wien in einem andern Welttheil | Zauberoper | 3 acts | BäuerleAdolf Bäuerle | 1822-10-099 October 1822 | Vienna, Theater in der Leopoldstadt |
BarometerDer Barometermacher auf der Zauberinsel | Zauberposse | 2 acts | RaimundFerdinand Raimund | 1823-12-1818 December 1823 | Vienna, Theater in der Leopoldstadt |
schwarzeDer schwarze See oder Der Blasebalgmacher und der Geist | Zauberspiel | 2 acts | Lenz? | 1825-02-044 February 1825 | Vienna, Theater in der Leopoldstadt |
JosefHerr Josef und Frau Baberl | Posse | 3 acts | Gleich | 1826-05-1111 May 1826 | Vienna, Theater in der Leopoldstadt |
gefesselteDie gefesselte Phantasie | Zauberspiel | 2 acts | RaimundFerdinand Raimund | 1828-01-088 January 1828 | Vienna, Theater in der Leopoldstadt |
AlpenDer Alpenkönig und der Menschenfeind | romantisch-komisches Zauberspiel | 2 acts | RaimundFerdinand Raimund | 1828-10-1717 October 1828 | Vienna, Theater in der Leopoldstadt |