Robert Franz Müller

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Robert Franz Müller (born June 26, 1864 in Vienna , † February 15, 1933 ibid) was a recognized Austrian researcher on Beethoven , Mozart , Schubert , Strauss and Franz von Suppè .

life and work

Robert Franz Müller, who learned piano , organ , violin with Josef Hellmesberger and counterpoint with Anton Bruckner , had to renounce his desired artistic career after graduating from high school and instead enter civil service, from which he retired after four decades as chief accountant is.

In his free time, however, he devoted himself to practically practiced music as a composer and choirmaster and as a historian of music-historical research, the results of which he published in numerous newspaper and magazine articles. In this context, the musicologist Michael Lorenz , who researched and documented Robert Müller's life, work and activities in detail, reports that the honored Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert and Strauss researcher Müller stole valuable files and documents from Vienna's archives to which an unspecified selection of Müller's son was returned after Müller's death.

It is thanks to Robert Müller's thefts that some files and documents of great musical historical value that he illegally appropriated for his research activities escaped the fire in the Palace of Justice and are now available for posterity. Accordingly, the Suppè researcher Andreas Weigel has regretted that Müller, whose meticulous study of files owes posterity fundamental corrections to Franz von Suppè's biography, did not steal the land law files on Suppè that he evaluated in 1926, which is what these essential inheritance and pupillary files, which contained binding information about Suppès paternal and maternal ancestors as well as his life and training in Zadar (until 1835) and Vienna (until 1838) would have saved from the flames of the Palace of Justice fire.

Robert Müller's estate is in the Austrian National Library for which his son Othmar Johannes Müller wrote a “short biographical sketch about Robert Franz Müller” that provides information about Müller's life and work.

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literature

  • Andreas Weigel: “Robert Franz Müller's report on Suppès act of guardianship”. In: Andreas Weigel: Franz von Suppè (1819–1895). Human. Myth. Musician. Honorary citizen of Gars. Accompanying publication to the anniversary exhibition of the Zeitbrücke Museum Gars. With contributions by Andreas Weigel, Anton Ehrenberger , Ingrid Scherney and Christine Steininger. 424 pages with approx. 200 illustrations. (Gars am Kamp) 2019. ISBN 978-3-9504427-4-8 . P. 28, p. 35f. and p. 392.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Othmar Johannes Müller: Short biographical sketch about Robert Franz Müller. Austrian National Library. Music collection. Estate of Robert Franz Müller (typescript, 2 sheets)
  2. ^ A b Michael Lorenz: Robert Franz Müller and Beethoven's Third Will
  3. ^ Robert Franz Müller: From the boy Franz v. Soup. News from old land law acts. In: (" Neues Wiener Journal ". March 17, 1926, p. 3)
  4. ↑ Andreas Weigel: Hats off to the meticulous soup researcher Robert Franz Müller. Reference to Robert Franz Müller's (1864–1933) biographically informative article “Vom Junge Franz v [on] Suppè. News from old land law acts "
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Robert Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1933
Place of death Vienna