Adolf Müller Sr.

Adolf Müller Sr. (7 October 1801 – 29 July 1886) was a composer from the Austrian Empire and late Austria-Hungary.

His early music lessons were from Joseph Rieger, organist at the Church of St James in Brno.

Aged eight he played piano in public concerts; later, helped by his uncle, he appeared in theatres as singer and actor.

His first operetta Wer andern eine Grube gräbt, fällt selbst hinein ("He who digs a hole for another, falls into it himself") was produced in December 1825 at the Theater in der Josefstadt; in the following year his operetta Die schwarze Frau [de] was produced, and was very successful.

[1][2] His son Adolf Müller Jr. (1839–1901) conducted the opera orchestra in Posen (now Poznań in Poland) in 1864, and later worked in Magdeburg, Düsseldorf, Rotterdam and at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna, where he initially assisted his father.