Heinrich Müller (Hymn-Writer)

Born: c1500 - Nürnberg, Bavaria, Germany
Died: c1580 - Annaberg, Saxony, Germany

Heinrich Müller (Mueller), was a native of Nürnberg. About 1526 or 1527 he was imprisoned as a Lutheran by Duke Georg of Saxony, but was released after the Duke died on April 17, 1539. Thereafter, till about 1580, he kept a school for writing and arithmetic at Annaberg in Saxony. Bartholom äus Muller, sometime schoolmaster at Zwickau in Saxony, in a petition presented to the Elector Christian I. in 1587, and in another petition presented to the Elector Christian II. in 1601, described himself as the son of this Heinrich Müller, and declared that the hymn Hilf, Gott, dass mirs gelinge was written by his father during his imprisonment (see Koch i. 417; Wetzel's Analecta Hymnica ii. 720, &c).

Comment:
There is another German hymn writer by the name of Heinrich Müller (1631-1675)

Source: John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Contributed by Aryeh Oron (October 2018)

Texts of Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works

BWV 343

Chorale Texts used in Bach’s Vocal Works

Hilf, Gott, dass mirs gelinge (1531; NLGB 75; GH 94)

Links to other Sites

Heinrich Müller (Hymnary.org)

Bibliography