Muller Concerto for Flute in E minor

August Eberhard Müller (1767-1817) was a German composer, organist and choir leader.

Trained by his organist father, he made his first public performance aged eight. He then studied under Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach at Bückeburg, where Müller served as organist at the Ulrichskirche until 1788. From 1789, he worked as a choir leader, teacher, and organist in Magdeburg.

On the recommendation of Johann Friedrich Reichardt, whom he had met in Berlin in 1792, Müller was made organist of the St. Nicholas Church in Leipzig in 1794. In 1800, he was made the assistant to Johann Adam Hiller, whom he succeeded as Thomaskantor upon his death in 1804. In 1810, he became Kapellmeister of the ducal court in Weimar.

Müller kept J. S. Bach’s works in the repertoire and also contributed to the spread of Viennese Classicism. In 1801, he conducted the first performance outside Vienna of Haydn’s The Seasons.

He composed for the piano, writing two concertos, fourteen sonatas, and various capriccios and other pieces. He also wrote seven flute concertos and other works for flute and orchestra, along with études for flute and piano.