Rolf-Hans Müller

Rolf-Hans Müller (born April 10, 1928 in Dresden ; † December 26, 1990 in Baden-Baden ) was a German orchestra conductor and composer .

Life

Rolf-Hans Müller attended the Kreuzschule in his birthplace and was a singer in the Dresden Kreuzchor . After the war he studied at the Musikhochschule in Heidelberg and from 1949 worked as a pianist, composer and arranger for Südwestfunk in Baden-Baden.

In the fall of 1958, after Kurt Edelhagen left for Cologne, he was entrusted with founding and directing an orchestra, the SWF Dance Orchestra, which he directed until 1979. He undertook various tours to Asia and America with the orchestra. Müller took part in numerous television programs, so u. a. also in the first color television broadcast on ARD (August 26, 1967), the gala evening of the record (Conference: Vivi Bach and Dietmar Schönherr ), from the 25th German Radio Exhibition Berlin 1967, where he was responsible for the entire musical direction. After Franz Grothes death in 1982, Rolf-Hans Müller also took over the musical direction of the television program Zum Blauen Bock until it was discontinued. He set the texts that Heinz Schenk wrote for the lecture in the show to music. On the radio he was a guest several times as the head of the SWF dance orchestra in the series Alone Against All by Hans Rosenthal.

Müller composed music for films and television series such as Der Forellenhof , Salto Mortale , Die Powenzbande as well as for the crime series Tatort and appeared with the band on television. He also produced records with dance music and jazz, among others with the stratospheric trumpeter Maynard Ferguson , whom he accompanied with his orchestra.

Rolf-Hans Müller died at the age of 62 and was buried in the main cemetery in Baden-Baden . He was married to Ritha Müller-Davar. His wife was a native of India and was a professional u. a. a trained economist. The Südwestrundfunk awards the Rolf-Hans Müller Prize for film music to young composers every two years .

Filmography

• 1957: Mrs. Cheney's end
• 1960: believe me
• 1960: Terror in the scales
• 1962–1963: All my animals (series)
• 1965: The Forellenhof (series)
• 1969: Hush, hush into the basket
• 1971: Too stupid to ...
• 1969–1971: Salto Mortale (series)
• 1972: Tatort - When stones speak
• 1973: The Powenz Gang (multi-part)
• 1973: The Curse of the Black Sisters
• 1973: Tatort - Cherchez la femme or Die Geister vom Mummelsee
• 1974: Tatort - playback or the show goes on
• 1975: Crime scene - death of a burglar
• 1977–1979: Let's go (show)
• 1981–1985: Golden Times - Bitter Times (multi-part)
• 1987: Moselbrück (series)

Radio plays

• Locomotive 1414 goes on vacation

Lexical entries

• Jürgen Wölfer : Jazz in Germany. The encyclopedia. All musicians and record companies from 1920 until today. Hannibal, Höfen 2008, ISBN 978-3-85445-274-4 .

Web links

• Rolf-Hans Müller in the Internet Movie Database (English)