Herbert Müller (musician, 1932)

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Herbert Müller (born July 12, 1932 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian musician , journalist and record manager.

life and work

Müller began his musical career with the Stadtmusikkapelle Wilten at the age of 14 as first trombonist. After graduating from high school, he first studied trombone and later musicology at the University of Innsbruck . From 1955 to 1960 he directed the studio combo of Radio Tirol , as well as the "Folk Musicians of Radio Tirol". As a trombonist he was alongside Joe Zawinul and Fatty George "a pioneer of the newer jazz scene in Tyrol". He composed radio play music for Radio Tirol, cultural film and stage music. In 1960 he gave his last concert in Innsbruck as the director of the Radio Tirol studio combo. “The idol of our jazz-loving youth says goodbye,” wrote the Tyrolean daily.

In 1966 he became head of promotion at CBS Records in Frankfurt. As head of the classic press department of Teldec Telefunken-Decca Schallplatten in Hamburg , he worked with artists such as Placido Domingo , Luciano Pavarotti and Nikolaus Harnoncourt ; as editor-in-chief of the music magazine FonoForum between 1976 and 1980. From 1980 to 1990 he was Director of Light Music at TELDEC Record Service. His artists included u. a. Richard Clayderman and Caterina Valente , Gotthilf Fischer and Heino .

Awards

The Federal President of the Republic of Austria awarded Herbert Müller, who "through his many years of creative work has promoted the reputation of art in Austria in an excellent way", the professional title of Professor in 1987 .

For the recordings he produced with Ernst Mosch and his original Egerland musicians, Herbert Müller received the song penny on ribbon from the city of Seligenstadt in 1987. The winners of the “Liederpfennig” before Herbert Müller were among others Nina Hagen, Konstantin Wecker and Jürgen von der Lippe. The song penny on the ribbon “is due to him not least because he helped to articulate folk music, the music of the silent masses, in Germany,” wrote the publicist Reginald Rudorf.

In 1988 the trombonist Herbert Müller received the Gold Medal of Merit of the International Music Association CISM for his "decades of international work for brass music" .

Private

Herbert Müller has been married since 1962. He lives with his wife Margot near Munich. Both have a daughter, Gabriele Müller.

literature

  • Frank / Altmann, Tonkünstler-Lexikon, Part Two, Volume 2, Heinrichshofen's Verlag, Wilhelmshaven, 1978 (15th edition)
  • Hubert Gundolf, Tyrolean all over the world, Tyrolia-Verlag Innsbruck-Vienna-Munich, 1972
  • Drexel / Fink (HG), Music History of Tyrol III, Wagner University Publishing House, Innsbruck: Christine Federspiel-Heger, Jazz in Tyrol, The pioneers of the modern jazz scene in Tyrol, 2008

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Drexel / Fink (HG), Musikgeschichte Tirols III, Wagner University Press, Innsbruck: Christine Federspiel-Heger, Jazz in Tirol, The Pioneers of the Modern Jazz Scene in Tirol, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian musician, journalist and record manager
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck