Gottfried Müller (composer)

Joachim Gottfried Müller (born 8 June 1914 in Dresden; died 3 May 1993 in Nuremberg) was a German composer, cantor, and organist. Life He was the son of theologian Adolf Müller (de:Adolf Müller) . He studied with Dresden church music director , and also for a year at the University of Edinburgh with Donald Francis Tovey. In 1932 Karl Straube taught him to play the organ in Leipzig. In the same year, Fritz Busch performed Müller’s 90th Psalm for soloists, choir and orchestra. A little later, Müller’s variations and fugue on the folk song “Morgenrot” op. 2 were premiered at the International Music Festival in Venice. With effect from May 1, 1933, Müller joined the NSDAP (membership number 2,458,091). In 1934, his German Heroes’ Requiem (op. 4), was premiered by Karl Elmendorff at the 1934 Tonkunstlerfest in Wiesbaden. It was dedicated “into the hands of the Führer”, and based on a text by Klaus Niedner. Joseph Goebbels noted it impressed Adolf Hitler. In a biographical note in 1961, the composer instead dedicated it “to the fallen soldiers of the First World War.” The work underwent several revivals in the following years. On the occasion of a performance in 1934, his teacher Karl St