Müller, Sigfrid Walther
Müller, Sigfrid Walther
Müller, Sigfrid Walther, German composer; b. Plauen, Jan. 11, 1905; d. in a Russian prison camp in Baku, Nov. 2,1946. He studied at the Leipzig Cons, with Karg-Elert and Martienssen, and also church music and organ with Sträube. He taught at the Leipzig Cons. (1929–32) and at the Hochschule für Musik in Weimar (1940–41), and then was in the German army on the eastern front. His output comprised 62 opus numbers, mostly chamber music and organ works. He also composed an opera, Schlaraffenhochzeit(Leipzig, 1937), Böhmische Musik for Orch., Gohliser Schlossmusik for Small Orch., and a Concerto for Flute and Chamber Orch. (1941).
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