Alfred Thomas Müller (born 12 January 1939 in
Leipzig
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) is a German
conductor,
composer
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and
pianist
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. He won the 1988
Handel Prize presented by the city of
Halle.
Works
Orchestra and chamber ensemble
* ''flares'' (1979/80)
* ''picture for orchestra'' (1983/84)
* ''Spuren'' (1986)
* ''Epiphanie'' (1993/94)
* ''Entasis II'' (2001)
* ''Scheidt-Adaptionen'' (1991)
Solo instrument with orchestra
* ''Konzert für Klavier und Kammerorchester'' (1984)
Choir
* ''Motette'' (2003)
Organ
* ''Credo quia absurdum'' (1991)
Chamber music
* ''Streichquartett Nr. 1'' (1973/74)
* ''Streichquartett Nr. 2'' (1976/77)
* ''Konzentrationen'' (1981)
* ''Einblicke – Ausblicke'' (1982)
* ''Proteus'' (1985)
* ''Maqam'' (1987)
* ''Kalamos'' (1990)
* ''Drei Fragmente'' (1975/1993)
* ''Streichquartett Nr. 3'' (1993)
* ''Ataraxia'' (1997/98)
* ''Entasis I'' (2000)
* ''Der Himmer berührt die Erde'' (2002)
Solo instruments
* ''Profile'' (1978)
* ''Solo mit Händel'' (1986)
* ''Die Posaunen der sieben Engel'' (1987)
* ''Vibrationen'' (1987)
* ''tuba sola'' (1989)
* ''Anamesis'' (1990)
* ''Correspondance'' (1992)
* ''Calls'' (1992)
* ''Fatum'' (1995)
* ''Paian'' (1996)
* ''Vier Gesänge nach Rimbaud'' (1981)
* ''Altjapanische Gesänge'' (1995/96)
* ''Canticum cecebratio'' (1994)
* ''DEUTSCHLAND – Ein Wintermärchen'' (1995)
* ''Hommage a la Femme'' (2002)
Notes
References
Sources
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Further reading
*
Stefan Amzoll: ''Alfred Thomas Müller''. In ''
Komponisten der Gegenwart
The ''Komponisten der Gegenwart'' (KDG) is a music encyclopedia in the German language about composers of the 20th and 21st century. It is a looseleaf service with information on currently about 900 composers.
Editors
Hanns-Werner Heister and Wa ...
'' (KDG). Edition Text & Kritik, Munich 1996, .
* ''Müller, Thomas.'' In Wilfried W. Bruchhäuser: ''Komponisten der Gegenwart im Deutschen Komponisten-Interessenverband. Ein Handbuch.'' 4th edition, Deutscher Komponisten-Interessenverband, Berlin 1995, , .
External links
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Munzinger-Archiv
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20th-century German composers
20th-century German classical composers
German conductors (music)
German classical pianists
German male classical pianists
Academic staff of Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
Handel Prize winners
1939 births
Living people
Musicians from Leipzig
20th-century German male musicians