Carl Friedrich Müller (composer)

Carl Friedrich Müller (born November 17, 1796 in Nijmegen ; † 1846 ) was a German composer and conductor .

Life

Müller was a son of the singer and pianist Louise Müller geb. Kress (* 1763 in Göttingen , † August 1829 in Neustrelitz ), who later lived in Neustrelitz and belonged to the court of Grand Duke Georg . She also gave him his first music lessons, in which he quickly made great strides. At the age of 16 he first appeared as a pianist.

He received his first engagement as a bandmaster of a traveling troupe and from 1813 participated as a volunteer in the wars of liberation . Around 1814 he settled in Berlin as a piano and singing teacher. In 1825 Beethoven turned to Müller on an unspecified matter and declared that he was "ready to serve them like any true artist". Müller received several awards for his compositions, including "a 50 ducat medal adorned with the portrait of the king" from King Charles X of France .

In 1835 Emperor Dom Pedro II of Brazil appointed him court composer. From 1835 to 1837 he corresponded with Robert Schumann .

The highlight of his career was a concert that he gave on June 21, 1846 in Potsdam in the New Palace in front of King Friedrich Wilhelm IV and his family. Under Müller's own direction, "several of his latest original works" were played, interpreted by almost 100 singers and two military bands.

About 120 compositions by Müller are known. In addition, he and Augustus Frederick Christopher Kollmann published a music pedagogical work and a brochure on Ludwig Rellstab's journalistic attacks on the Berlin general music director Gaspare Spontini .

Works

with Augustus Frederick Christopher Kollmann, Ueber Logier ’s Musikunterrichts-System , Munich 1829
Spontini and Rellstab. A few words to the heart of the parties , Berlin 1833 ( digitized version )

literature

Carl von Ledebur , Tonkünstler-Lexicon Berlin's from the oldest times to the present , Berlin 1861, p. 383 ( digitized version )

Individual evidence

^ New Nekrolog der Deutschen , Vol. 7 (1829), Part Two, Ilmenau 1831, pp. 630f. ( Digitized version)
^ Ludwig van Beethoven, Correspondence. Complete edition , Volume 6, ed. by Sieghard Brandenburg , Munich 1996, p. 129 f.
↑ Allgemeine Musikische Zeitung , Vol. 31, No. 12 of March 25, 1829, Col. 204
^ Neue Zeitschrift für Musik , Volume 2, No. 10 of February 3, 1835, p. 40
↑ See Robert and Clara Schumann's correspondence with correspondents in Berlin 1832 to 1883 , ed. by Klaus Martin Kopitz , Eva Katharina Klein and Thomas Synofzik (= Schumann-Briefedition , Series II, Volume 17), Cologne: Dohr 2015, pp. 461–467
↑ Berliner Musikische Zeitung , Vol. 3, No. 27 of July 4, 1846, p. [3] ( digitized version )
↑ See the catalog raisonné in Ledebur, p. 383 f. and 697

personal data
SURNAME	Müller, Carl Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German composer and Kapellmeister
DATE OF BIRTH	November 17, 1796
PLACE OF BIRTH	Nijmegen
DATE OF DEATH	1846

[1] New Nekrolog der Deutschen , Vol. 7 (1829), Part Two, Ilmenau 1831, pp. 630f. ( Digitized version)

[2] Ludwig van Beethoven, Correspondence. Complete edition , Volume 6, ed. by Sieghard Brandenburg , Munich 1996, p. 129 f.

[3] Allgemeine Musikische Zeitung , Vol. 31, No. 12 of March 25, 1829, Col. 204

[4] Neue Zeitschrift für Musik , Volume 2, No. 10 of February 3, 1835, p. 40

[5] See Robert and Clara Schumann's correspondence with correspondents in Berlin 1832 to 1883 , ed. by Klaus Martin Kopitz , Eva Katharina Klein and Thomas Synofzik (= Schumann-Briefedition , Series II, Volume 17), Cologne: Dohr 2015, pp. 461–467

[6] Berliner Musikische Zeitung , Vol. 3, No. 27 of July 4, 1846, p. [3] ( digitized version )

[7] See the catalog raisonné in Ledebur, p. 383 f. and 697