Hans Müller (art historian)

Hans Müller. Sketch by Max Koner (1895)

Hans Emil Felix Müller (born September 18, 1854 in Cologne , † April 11, 1897 in Berlin ) was a German musicologist and writer.

Life

The son of the poet Wolfgang Müller attended high school in Cologne and Wiesbaden and fell ill with a lung disease in 1873, after which he spent almost three years in health resorts in Switzerland and Italy. He then studied at the Universities of Leipzig and Bonn , where he mainly pursued philosophical and art history studies. He settled down as an art critic in Frankfurt am Main, where he wrote for the “Frankfurter Presse” and published a weekly for urban affairs, “Die Stadt”. He became interested in medieval music and published three books on the subject. He received his doctorate from the University of Leipzig in 1885 with a musicological thesis under Oscar Paul . Thereupon he got a job at the Badische Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhe in 1885 and in the same year switched to the music department of the Royal Library in Berlin . He also published the comedy “The King Sleeps” (1887). Appointed professor in 1889, he took over lectures in music history at the University of Music in Berlin.

On October 1, 1893, he succeeded Robert Dohme as the first permanent secretary of the Berlin Academy of the Arts . In this capacity wrote the first volume in the history of the academy. He died shortly after the publication of the tape.

Müller was buried in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Berlin. His grave has not been preserved.

Fonts

• The music of Wilhelm von Hirschau . Restoration, translation and explanation of his music-theoretical work . Frankfurt a. M. 1883 (dissertation)
• Hucbald's real and spurious writings on music . Leipzig 1884.
• A treatise on mensural music in the Karlsruhe manuscript St. Peter pergamen 29 a . (= Communications from the Grand Ducal Badische Hof- und Landesbibliothek and Münzsammlung 6) Karlsruhe 1886.
• The king is sleeping. Comedy . Mitscher & Röstell, Berlin 1887.
• Portraits of princes in Baden . 2 volumes, Groos, Karlsruhe 1888–1892.
• Wilhelm Kaulbach . Fontane, Berlin 1893.
• History of the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin 1696–1896 . First part: From the justification by Friedrich III. from Brandenburg to the restoration by Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia. Berlin 1896 ( digitized ).

literature

• Hermann Arthur Lier :  Müller, Hans Emil Felix . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 52, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, p. 503 f.

Web links

Commons : Hans Müller  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Works by and about Hans Müller in the catalog of the German National Library
• Digital copies