Wenzel Müller, born at Tyrnau, Moravia, died at Baden near Vienna. Dramatic composer, at first pupil of a schoolmaster at Altstadt, Maravia, later of Dittersdorf. At the age of twelve he composed a mass, and, still very young, became one of the most prolific and popular composers of light music. In 1783 he was appointed Kapellmeister at the theatre in Brünn, in 1785 at Marinelli's theatre in Vienna, went to Prague as director of the opera in 1808, and returned in Vienna in 1831, as Kapellmeister at the Leopoldstädter Theater. His compositions, which number several hundred works, include more than two hundred operas and operettas, He left also symphonies, overtures, and masses.
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