Joachim Gottfried Müller (born 8 June 1914 in Dresden; died 3 May 1993 in Nuremberg) was a German composer, cantor, and organist.
He studied with Dresden church music director Bernhard Pfannstiehl [de], and also for a year at the University of Edinburgh with Donald Francis Tovey.
On the occasion of a performance in 1934, his teacher Karl Straube wrote: "In humility and awe it will be obvious to you that you are a gifted person, you have been given the pound of primal musical power".
2 at the annual meeting of the Reich Chamber of Culture in 1936 in the Berlin Philharmonie under Wilhelm Furtwängler, he was exempted from the second year of military service through the intervention of Adolf Hitler.
In 1937, the Variations on “Innsbruck, I must leave you” were premiered at the same time under Rudolf Volkmann in Jena and Karl Elmendorff in Mannheim, and in 1939 Müller's Concerto for large orchestra op.
In 1951 his motet Tröstet, Tröstiert mein Volk for 7-part mixed choir a cappella was premiered at the Protestant Church Congress in Berlin under Günther Arndt .
In 1962 Müller's Capriccio for large orchestra was premiered under Heinrich Hollreiser in Mannheim and in 1967 his Symphony after Dürer under the same conductor in Nuremberg.
In the 1980s and 90s, the Windsbacher Boys' Choir, under its then director Karl-Friedrich Beringer, performed numerous motets as part of its concert tours at home and abroad.
In 2004, Müller's Rufe into the Night, a sequence for trumpet solo, was released on CD in a recording by Ludwig Güttler.
Thomas Schinköth: Between Psalm 90 and the words of the leader: The composer Gottfried Müller, in: Dresden and advanced music in the 20th century.