Wenzel Müller

[2] He studied with Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf and performed as a theatre musician in his youth.

Although he wrote several popular stage works (mostly Singspiele), his art songs are his enduring legacy.

Often possessing witty music and lyrics or expressing a great deal of tenderness, Müller's songs were immensely popular and some of the works he wrote with Ferdinand Raimund remain in the Viennese repertory.

His opera Die Schwestern von Prag provided the theme for Beethoven's "Kakadu Variations" for piano trio, Opus 121a.

[4] On 3 August 1835, Müller died of natural causes in Baden bei Wien, Austria, at the age of 67.