The New International Encyclopædia/Müller, Wenzel

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MÜLLER, Wenzel (1767-1835). An Austrian composer, born at Tyrnau, Moravia. He was a pupil of Dittersdorf, and from 1813 was kapellmeister at the Leopoldstadt Theater, Vienna. He wrote more than two hundred operas, besides symphonies, cantatas, and masses. His compositions include: Das verfehlte Rendezvous (1783); Das neue Sonntagskleid (1793); Die Schwestern von Prag (1794); and Asmodi oder das böse Weib und der Satan (1834).