Johann Daniel Müller

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Johann Daniel Müller (born February 10, 1716 in Wissenbach , Nassau (today part of Eschenburg ); died not before 1786 probably in Riga ), also: Daniel Müller , Daniel, Elias, Elias Artista, Messias, DS, p. [1] was violinist , violist and concert director , then a radical pietist author and “ prophet ” of the unification church “Revelation of Christ”. In 1726 he came to the Nassau court in Dillenburg , where he learned to play the violin. At the Wittgenstein court in Berleburg (from 1733) he got to know the radical Pietist literature. Around 1735 he met Johann Sebastian Bach in Leipzig, who recommended him to the court conductor Johann Theodor Roemhildt in Merseburg . From 1737 to 1739 he was the violinist and violist court musician in Darmstadt ; then he devoted himself to reading Jakob Boehmes, among others . In 1744 he was appointed court musician, cantor and school clerk in Hachenburg and married Maria Ursula, widowed Schott, née Windecker (1705–1759), a relative of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's mother, Catharina Elisabeth Goethe , née. Textor. In 1746 he moved to Frankfurt am Main . As concert director (since 1747) he published the Complete Hessen-Hanauische Choral- Buch (2 parts, 1754) there. Johann Daniel Müller has been mentioned as the first violinist of the Frankfurt Chapel since 1755. The young Goethe may have met him during performances in the Sankt-Katharinen-Kirche in Frankfurt , where Goethe's family had their pews. Müller's book Elias with the Alcoran of Mah

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