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Wenzel Müller
7+ albums
18th century19th centuryclassical period
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Wenzel Müller (26 September 1767 – 3 August 1835) was an Austrian composer and conductor whose career was centred on German-language theatrical music in Vienna and, for a period, Prague. Born in Moravia (often given as Markt Türnau), he trained as a theatre musician and is reported in modern reference summaries to have studied with Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf before entering professional stage work. His defining appointment came in 1786, when he became Kapellmeister at the Theater in der Leopoldstadt in Vienna, a post that placed him at one of the city’s most important popular-theatre venues and allowed him to shape orchestral, operatic, and Singspiel repertory at very high volume. From 1807 to 1813 he worked at the German theatre in Prague, after which he returned to Vienna and continued in Leopoldstadt until about 1830; he died in Baden bei Wien in 1835. Modern sources regularly characterise him as extraordinarily prolific, with very large numbers of stage works attributed to him, and he remains a representative figure for the musical life of Vienna’s suburban theatres around 1800. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.