Sigfrid Walther Müller

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Sigfrid Walther Müller (born January 11, 1905 in Plauen ; † November 2, 1946 in Mingəçevir ) was a German composer .

Life

Sigfrid Walther Müller was born as the son of the schoolteacher Albert Hugo Müller and his wife Johanna geb. Shell born in Plauen (Vogtland). Between the ages of 5 and 12, his father taught him piano playing and music theory. Müller first attended the Realschule in Frankenberg then the Real-Gymnasium in Chemnitz . Between 1923 and 1926 he was enrolled at the Conservatory in Leipzig . Here he was instructed in composition by Sigfrid Karg-Elert, piano by Alfred Baresel and conducting by Max Hochkofler . From 1926 to 1927 he deepened his organ playing with Günther Ramin . In the following years Müller was a teacher at the Leipzig Conservatory. In 1935 he became conductor of the Leipzig Chamber Orchestra and since 1940 he has been a lecturer in composition at the Weimar Academy of Music .

According to information from the Berlin Document Center in 1980 - according to Fred K. Prieberg  - Müller was a member of the NSDAP , but there is no entry in the central membership file of the NSDAP. In the autumn of 1943 Sigfrid Walther Müller was called up for military service on the Eastern Front. At the age of 41 he died in a Soviet captivity.

The composer's musical estate (58 music manuscripts and 38 printed music) is in the Bavarian State Library, Munich .

Works

With opus number

  • op. 1: Chamber music for clarinet and string trio in A major (1926)
  • op. 2: Sonata for flute and piano in E major (1925)
  • op. 3: Violin Sonata No. 1 in G major (1923)
  • Op. 4: Variations and Fugue on a Funny Theme for 2 pianos (1927)
  • op.5: Dance suite for piano (1926)
  • op. 6: 5 songs (1927)
  • op.7: Violin Sonata No. 2 in D major (1925)
  • op.8: Suite in the old style for piano (1925)
  • op.9a: Sonata for flute solo (1926)
  • op.9b: Pieces for piano and viola (1924)
  • op.10: Eight chorale improvisations for organ (1925)
  • op.11: Little Sonata for Piano (1925)
  • op.12: Piano Trio No. 1 (1925)
  • op.13: Divertimento in A major for piano and string quartet (1925)
  • op. 14: Cello Sonata in F major (1926)
  • op.15: Toccata, Passacaglia and Fugue for organ (1926)
  • op.16: Piano Sonata in C major (1926)
  • op.17: String Quartet in E minor (1926)
  • op.18: Volasonata in D minor (1926)
  • op.19: Piano Trio No. 2 (1928)
  • op.20: Piano music: 2 sonatinas and 1 suite (1928)
  • op. 21: Organ Sonata in C minor (1928)
  • op. 22: Variations and Rondo on a Theme by Haydn for piano (1928)
  • op.23: Concerto grosso for piano and orchestra (1928)
  • op. 24: Violin Sonata [No. 3] G major (1928)
  • op.26: Two preludes and fugues for organ (A minor and G major)
  • op. 30: Symphony No. 1
  • op. 33: Funny overture for orchestra
  • op. 34: Divertimento for small orchestra
  • op. 39: Concerto for Organ and Orchestra
  • op. 43: Cheerful music for orchestra
  • op. 46: Concerto for harpsichord and orchestra
  • op. 48: Symphony No. 2
  • op. 49: German Dances and Fugue for small orchestra
  • op. 50: Concerto grosso for trumpet and orchestra
  • op. 52: oboe sonata
  • op. 53: Two sonatinas for piano
  • op. 54: Wedding of Cocktails. Opera
  • op.55: Bohemian Music for Orchestra (1937)
  • op.56: Concerto for bassoon and chamber orchestra (1938)
  • op. 58: Twenty chorale preludes for organ
  • op.59,1: German dance sequence for wind orchestra (1937)
  • op.59,2: Parade and hymn for wind orchestra (1937)
  • op.61,1: March music for wind orchestra (1939)
  • op.62: Concerto for Flute and Chamber Orchestra in B flat major (1941)
  • op. 63: Piano Trio [No. 3]
  • op. 64: Concertino for tenor violin and string trio
  • op.67: Symphonic Prelude for Orchestra (1942)

Without opus number (alphabetically)

  • Gloria for eight-part mixed choir (1925)
  • Gohliser Schloßmusik for small orchestra (1937)
  • Introduction and double fugue for string quartet
  • Children's songs for piano
  • Children's pieces for piano four hands
  • Little sonata for violin and piano
  • Music for the stage play The Wise Farmer's Daughter ( Martin Raschke ) (1936)
  • Music for the radio game The Long Shift from Ehrenfriedersdorf (Martin Raschke) (1936)
  • Music for the radio play The Duty ( Wilhelm von Scholz ) (1936)
  • Music for the Theodor Körner legend game Spirit of Freedom ( Paul Beyer ) (1933)
  • Music for the audio work Totentanz ( Richard Euringer ) (1935)
  • Pieces for woodwinds (1939)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Müller, Sigfrid Walther . In: Erich H. Müller (Ed.): German Musicians Lexicon . Wilhelm Limpert, Dresden 1929, column 964.
  2. ↑ a b Müller, Sigfrid Walther . In: Hans Joachim Moser: Musiklexikon . 3. Edition. Sikorski, Hamburg 1951, p. 741.
  3. ↑ a b c Müller, Sigfrid Walther . In: Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 . CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, pp. 4743-4745.
  4. ^ Fred K. Prieberg: Archive inventory for the manual German musicians 1933-1945 . CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, p. 6768.
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Sigfrid Walther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Plauen
DATE OF DEATH November 2, 1946
Place of death Mingəçevir