Johann Heinrich Friedrich Müller
Johann Heinrich Friedrich Müller was a German actor, writer and Singspiel poet.
Life
Born in Aderstedt, Müller is said to have been called Schröder or Schroeter at first. After the early death of his father, he attended the Latina of the Franckesche Stiftungen in Halle (Saale) from 1749. When he accidentally set a fire there, he fled from this institution. Puppeteers, coming from Lauchstädt, had a lasting effect on Müller. He played the play they gave him on a homemade theatre stage, which exploded and caught fire when gunpowder was ignited.Müller fled to his brother, a priest in Halle's surroundings. The latter sent him to the cathedral school in Magdeburg. There he was trained as an actor by and took on the surname Müller. In Potsdam, he had his first public appearance in the, which was followed by many others.
From 1763, Müller was active in Vienna and lived there with his family in.
In 1767–1768, Müller wrote the numbers 11–13 of the Singspiel-libretto Bastien und Bastienne, which was set to music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
As a teacher, Müller taught Vladimir Odoyevsky, and perhaps John Field, Alexander Griboyedov, and Alexander Alyabyev.
Müller died in Vienna.
Family
Müller's children included:- Josephine Hortense Müller, 1782–1799 court actress, married the painter Heinrich Friedrich Füger in 1790.
- Friedrich Josef Müller, 1785–1804 Court actor, afterwards k. k. servant,
- Anna Müller, actress, member of the court theatre from 1798.
- Victoria Müller, actress.