Müller, Wenzel (1767–1835)

Austrian composer and conductor. A pupil of Dittersdorf, he became conductor at the Brno theatre in 1783, aged 16 and in 1786 at the Leopoldstadt Theatre in Vienna, where he settled until 1808. He was then director at the Prague Opera, where his daughter Therese Grünbaum was engaged. On his return to Vienna in 1813 he became again conductor of the Leopoldstadt Theatre.

Works nearly 200 operas and musical plays, for example Das Sonnenfest der Braminen (1790), Die Zauberzither, oder Kaspar der Fagottist (1791), Das Neusonntagskind (1793), Die Schwestern von Prag (1794), Die Teufelsmühle auf dem Wienerberge (1799), Die travestierte Zauberflöte (a parody of Mozart's Magic Flute, 1818); masses; symphonies.