William Mueller by Hoffert

WILLIAM MUELLER
1845-1905 German Tenor

He was the son of a shoemaker, but could not be trained his voice because of the poverty of his parents. So he was roofer; a pin lady heard him at work on the roof of the monastery Wienhausen sing a song, and by their means allowed King George V of Hanover him to study singing. After his training by the Kapellmeister Karl Ludwig Finck in Hanover, he made his debut in 1868 at the Court Theatre of Hanover as the title character in the opera "Joseph" by Mehul. Until 1875 he remained in Hanover. 1875-77 he was engaged at the Opera House Leipzig, 1877-84 he was a member of the Berlin Court Opera, where he participated in the premiere of the Ope "Ekkehard" by JJ Abert 1878. In 1884 he came back to Hanover, where he now until 1893 worked as a highly valued member of the ensemble and 1884 among others attended the premiere of the opera "Gudrun" by Felix Draeseke. The focus of his repertoire was the heroic tenors, in roles such as the Raoul in the 'Huguenots' by Meyerbeer, the title character in the "prophet", the Masaniello in "La muette de Portici" by Auber, Lohengrin and the Max in "Freischütz "Weber.