Wenzel Müller
Wenzel Müller ( born September 26, 1767 in market Türnau, Moravia; † August 3, 1835 in Baden bei Wien ) was an Austrian composer and theater conductor.
Life
After his training, among others, Carl Ditter von Dittersdorf, Wenzel Müller worked for the theater from 1782 onwards. 1786, he took over the post of Kapellmeister and resident composer at Vienna's Theater in der Leopoldstadt. After a brief stint at the German Opera in Prague from 1807 to 1813, he returned to his former site of action, where he worked until 1830.
Works
Müller has created especially popular works for the stage and musical comedies, including many representatives of the so-called Viennese puppet and magic opera. Most of them were first performed in the Leopoldstadt Theatre. Have become known in particular
- The sun feast of Brahmins to a libretto by Karl Friedrich Hensler, 1790, and
- Kaspar, the bassoonist, or: The Magic Zither ( libretto Joachim perinet ), 1791.
- The Neusonntagskind. A comical musical comedy based on a libretto by Karl Friedrich Hensler. It was performed with great success at the Berlin National Theatre since 1796 and witnessed to 1828 101 performances.
Both pieces deal specifically with a similar material as the about the same time, but much more famous opera The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, they were first thoroughly considered by the contemporary audience as equal competition pieces.
After templates Ferdinand Raimund Müller wrote The barometer makers on the Magic Island (1823 ), King of the Alps and the Misanthrope (1828 ) and The tethered imagination (1828 ). Other works were based on the libretto by Joachim perinet, Karl Friedrich Hensler and Karl Ludwig Costenoble.
Some songs from Müller's stage work have become independent and were in Vienna to popular evergreens. An example of this is about the song " I am the cutter sharpening " of the new Sunday child, where a parody is seen on arias from The Magic Flute; It was later edited even from other composers. Even the children's song Come a bird he flew composed.
Next Müller has also created ballets and pantomimes, but also brass band. Overall, his oeuvre comprises some 250 works.
Wenzel Müller died at the house of John Gasse 25, Baden near Vienna, where a (1980 re- attached ) plaque commemorates him. His body was buried in the same place in the cemetery of St. Helena.