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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. 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

Symphonic works
Fame: Concerto, for baritone and symphonic band

By Frederick A. Mueller



Concerto, for euphonium and band (1970)

By Frederick A. Mueller "Allegro" "Cavatina" "Rondo"  "Nocturne ''

Sinfonia No. 3, "Appalachian Heraldry"

For concert band

By Frederick A. Mueller

"Symphonic Suite No. 2 ''</li> <li>"Variations on a Theme by Barber," for Tuba and Harmony Orchestra</li></ol>

Songs (vocal)
<li>Five Songs on Blake Texts (1963)

For singing voice and piano

Music by Frederick A. Mueller

Text by William Blake</li></ol>

Chamber Music
<li>"Dance" (1951)

Music by Frederick A. Mueller

© 20 July 1951; EU244787</li>

<li>"Duex," for bassoon and timpani (1972)

Music by Frederick A. Mueller

Edited by Bruce Gbur

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<li>"Tuba Trio," for euphonium and 2 tubas

By Frederick A. Mueller (1973)

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<li>"Duex," for bassoon and timpani (1972)

Music by Frederick A. Mueller

Edited by Bruce Edward Gbur, DMA

Prairie Dawg Press

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<li>"Dance Suite," for E♭ alto saxophone and dancer (1973)

Includes dance instructions

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<li>Trio, for clarinet, alto saxophone, and bassoon (n.d.)</li>

<li>Sextet, for piano and winds (n.d.)</li></ol>

Studies
<li>Twenty-Four New Progressive Studies, for tuba

By Frederick A. Mueller (1973)

<li>New Studies for Bassoon (1973)

By Frederick A. Mueller

Morehead State University

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<li>The Art of Bassoon Playing (1969)

By William Spencer

Revised in 1969 by Frederick A. Mueller

Princeton, New Jersey: Summy-Birchard (1969);


 * ISBN 9780874870732</li></ol>

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.

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);
 * 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);
 * Scores, 1951–1987, papers from the Estate of Frederick A. Mueller, deceased, Morehead State University Library, Special Collections;