Franz Xaver Müller

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Franz Xaver Müller (born May 10, 1870 in Dimbach , Upper Austria ; † February 3, 1948 in Linz ) was an Austrian composer , priest and cathedral music director .

Life

Franz Xaver Müller was born in Dimbach in 1870 as the second of five children of Franz and Anna Müller. His musical talent was encouraged early on by his parents and his elementary school teacher, and at the age of nine he was allowed to sing in the church choir. From 1880 to 1883 he was a choirboy in the Augustinian Canons' Monastery of St. Florian , where he received lessons in violin, piano and singing and where he  met Anton Bruckner . He entered the order in 1890, made his profession in 1894  and was ordained a priest in 1895. In 1895/96 he studied music theory with Johann Evangelist Habert in Gmunden , and in 1898/99 with Josef Venantius von Wöss in Vienna . After a brief activity as a monastery chaplain, Müller became a monastery organist in 1904 and Regens Chori  in St. Florian in 1906 . Among other things, Johann Nepomuk David and the brothers Leopold and Ludwig Daxsperger were among his students. From 1922 to 1938 he taught music at the Episcopal Teacher Training Institute and at the School of the Sisters of the Cross in Linz. In 1924 Müller was appointed Domkapellmeister of Linz, an office he held until 1943. Müller died in Linz in 1948 after an operation that was initially well survived.

Works

Müller's works show the high and late romantic influence of his teachers Habert, Wöss and Bruckner. In doing so, he is looking for a new path between neoclassicism and Cecilianism in his compositions . His Masses and Proprien  are often designed with an orchestra.

  • Symphony in D major, 1910
  • St. Augustine (oratorio), 1915, first performed in 1924
  • Quartettino, 1928
  • two Te Deum, 1929, 1937
  • Heimat ( symphonic poem ), 1936
  • Missa diatonica (F major), 1940
  • Requiem for my funeral, 1947
  • In memoriam A. Bruckner (organ prelude)
  • six Latin and four German masses

His works also include numerous proprien songs, two string quartets, cantatas, sacred and secular songs and choirs, comedies and poems. Müller has also written numerous essays, especially on the life and work of Anton Bruckner.

Commemoration

The Franz-Xaver-Müller community was founded as early as 1936 to deal with his work. In St. Florian , Linz- Ebelsberg and Grein streets are named after him, the organ of the parish church of his birthplace Dimbach also bears his name.

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SURNAME Müller, Franz Xaver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer, priest and cathedral music director
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Dimbach (Upper Austria)
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 1948
Place of death Linz