Müller stu­died mu­sic with the Ben­e­dic­tines at Chron­itz (Kor­nice), Mo­ra­via, and learned to play all the in­stru­ment­ of the or­ches­tra. He was taken by Ottm­ar the prel­ate to Jo­han­nis­berg, Schlesien, where he con­tinued his studies with Karl Dit­ters von Dit­ter­dorf. In 1782, he joined the Waiz­hof­er The­a­ter Com­pa­ny as third vi­o­lin­ist, and wrote his first Sing­spiel, Das ver­fehlte Ren­dez­vous. In 1786, he be­came Ka­pell­meis­ter of the Le­o­pold­stadt-Theater in Vi­en­na. Over the next fif­teen years, he wrote a num­ber of pop­u­lar Singspiele, in­clud­ing Kas­par the Fa­got­tist and Die Schwes­ter von Prag (1794). In 1807, he ac­cept­ed a post as Ka­pell­meis­ter at the Ger­man Op­e­ra in Prague. In 1813, he re­turned to the Le­o­pold­stadt-The­a­ter in Vien­na. In ad­di­tion to his Sing­spiele, Müll­er al­so com­posed church mu­sic, in­cluding the Mass in G ma­jor.

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