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Frederick Adolph Mueller (nl) (né Frederich Adolf Mueller; 3 March 1921 Berlin – 5 March 2002 Mount Sterling, Kentucky) was a German-born American composer, music educator, musicologist, conductor, and bassoonist.

Career

Frederick Adolf Mueller, born in Berlin, emigrated from Cuxhaven, Germany, with his mother and sister, arriving in the United States November 30, 1934, when he was thirteen. Initially, they lived in the Jewish community of the place Skokie. His father and his older brother later died in the concentration camp Auschwitz. During the World War II he served in the United States Army. From 1946 to 1947 he studied at the Juilliard School of Music in New York City. From 1947 to 1955 he was a bassoonist in the United States 4th Army Band at Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas, and during this time he was also a bassoon connoisseur Kansas City Symphony, but he also served in the army during the Korean War. From 1955 to 1956 he served as a bassist in the United States 97th Army Band at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

Formal education

• 1957: Mueller earned a Bachelor of Arts in composition at the University of Houston. Then he was also a bassist at the Houston Symphony Orchestra.
• 1959: Mueller earned at Master of Arts in composition at the Eastman School of Music.
• 1961: Mueller earned a DMA in composition from Florida State University, Tallahassee. For his thesis, he composed Symphony No. 2 Opus 25.

Post graduate career

1961–1967: Mueller Chairman of the Department of Music at Spring Hill College in Mobile Alabama. While there, he met Mary Faye Moore, whom he married in 1966.

1966: Mueller studied at the New York Pro-Musica Institute, Oakland University, Rochester Hills, Michigan, and wrote a booklet about blockbuster, crooked horn and bassoon.

1967–1991: Mueller taught bassoon, music theory, and composition in the Music Department of the School of Humanities at Morehead State University. The Kentucky Music Teachers Association, in 1978, bestowed him its President's Award, and in 1987, the Association bestowed him with its Teacher of the Year Award for Colleges and Universities. Mueller retired from Morehead State in 1991 as Professor Emeritus.

In addition to these activities, he worked as a composer, bassist, conductor and judge in concert competitions.

Mueller is buried in Lee Cemetery, Morehead, Kentucky

Compositions

Symphonic works

1. Fame: Concerto, for baritone and symphonic band
   By Frederick A. Mueller
   OCLC 5591628
2. Concerto, for euphonium and band (1970)
   By Frederick A. Mueller
   1. "Allegro"
   2. "Cavatina"
   3. "Rondo"
   OCLC 8713534
3. "Nocturne
4. Sinfonia No. 3, "Appalachian Heraldry"
   For concert band
   By Frederick A. Mueller
5. "Symphonic Suite No. 2
6. "Variations on a Theme by Barber," for Tuba and Harmony Orchestra

Songs (vocal)

7. Five Songs on Blake Texts (1963)
   For singing voice and piano
   Music by Frederick A. Mueller
   Text by William Blake

Chamber Music

8. "Dance" (1951)
   Music by Frederick A. Mueller
   © 20 July 1951; EU244787
9. "Duex," for bassoon and timpani (1972)
   Music by Frederick A. Mueller
   Edited by Bruce Gbur
   OCLC 884937412
10. "Tuba Trio," for euphonium and 2 tubas
    By Frederick A. Mueller (1973)
    OCLC 4400217
11. "Duex," for bassoon and timpani (1972)
    Music by Frederick A. Mueller
    Edited by Bruce Edward Gbur, DMA
    Prairie Dawg Press
    OCLC 884937412, 53358116
12. "Dance Suite," for E♭ alto saxophone and dancer (1973)
    Includes dance instructions
    OCLC 165329312
13. Trio, for clarinet, alto saxophone, and bassoon (n.d.)
14. Sextet, for piano and winds (n.d.)

Studies

15. Twenty-Four New Progressive Studies, for tuba
    By Frederick A. Mueller (1973)
    OCLC 4314953
16. New Studies for Bassoon (1973)
    By Frederick A. Mueller
    Morehead State University
    OCLC 1063746, 321039893
17. The Art of Bassoon Playing (1969)
    By William Spencer
    Revised in 1969 by Frederick A. Mueller
    Princeton, New Jersey: Summy-Birchard (1969);
    OCLC 903966526; ISBN 9780874870732

Selected publications

• "Athanasius Kircher, Scholar of the Baroque," Frederick Mueller (Spring Hill College), paper read at a meeting of the South Central Chapter of the American Musicological Society, at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, April 7–8, 1967

Miscellaneous

• Sara S. Studebaker (1952–2017), who, in 1986, married James M. Salamon, was a bassoonist and a 1975 alumna of Morehead State. Studebaker, who was related to the bygone automobile manufacturer, endowed the Studebaker-Mueller scholarship in 2009 to support Morehead State music education students who are bassoon majors.

Notes and references

General references

• Neil Slater, Bill Gaver, Dr. Robert Taylor, Lucretia Stetler, Dr. William Bigham, Dr. M. Scott McBride, Dr. Chris Gallaher, Dr. Earke Louder, Jay Flippin, Dallas Sammons, Sara Studebaker, Phil Gniot: Frederick A. Mueller 1921-2002 in: The Bugler - 97th Army Band Fort Hill (Oklahoma) Newsletter, Vol. 3, Number 6, November / December 2010, pp. 2-7
• Das neue Lexikon des Blasmusikwesens (4th ed.), by Wolfgang Suppan (de) and Armin Suppan (de), Freiburg-Tiengen: Blasmusikverlag Schulz GmbH (1995); OCLC 937309541
• Music for Saxophone, general repertoire of music and educational literature for the saxophone (Vol. 2), Jean-Marie Londeix (ed.), Cherry Hill, New Jersey: Roncorp Publications (1985); OCLC 906468360, 915846403
• Scores, 1951–1987, papers from the Estate of Frederick A. Mueller, deceased, Morehead State University Library, Special Collections; OCLC 39482552