Franz Bösken

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Franz Bösken (born February 27, 1909 in Meppen ; † August 11, 1976 ) was a German music teacher, university professor , organologist and author.

life and work

Bösken was born in 1909 as the son of the grammar school director Edmund Bösken and his wife Antonie geb. Rolenkohl born. After graduating from high school in Papenburg , Franz Bösken studied musicology, art history, German and Romance philology in Cologne, Munich, Paris, Münster and Friborg. At the University of Friborg he received his doctorate in 1933 with a thesis on the music history of the city of Osnabrück . During the Second World War he did military service and then resumed his studies. The state exam as school musicians joined in 1950 as a trainee teacher a spot on Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium in Mainz.

Since 1952 he was a member of the Society of Organ Friends and since the same year worked as an organ expert at the State Office for Monument Preservation and since 1968 as a member of the State Monument Council in Rhineland-Palatinate. In 1961, together with Adam Gottron , he founded the Working Group for Middle Rhine Music History , which he headed as second chairman until 1974. In 1964, Bösken was appointed to the State University Institute for Music in Mainz as a lecturer in music education. In 1966 he was appointed professor of the institute and in 1973, as the institute was integrated into the university, professor at the University of Mainz, before he retired in 1974.

Among his numerous publications, the extensive organ inventories in the series Contributions to the Middle Rhine Music History and his fundamental treatise on the Stumm family of organ builders stand out. His work as an organologist concentrated on developing the organ landscape of Hessen , Rheinhessen and Rhineland-Palatinate.

Fonts (selection)

  • with Hermann Fischer , Matthias Thömmes: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 4: Koblenz and Trier administrative districts, Altenkirchen and Neuwied districts . 2 volumes. Schott, Mainz 2005, ISBN 978-3-7957-1342-3 (Contributions to the Middle Rhine Music History 40).
  • with Andreas Jaschinski: Osnabrück. In: Music in the past and present . Sachteil, Vol. 7. 2nd edition. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1997, pp. 1163–1166.
  • with Hermann Fischer: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 3: Former province of Upper Hesse . Part 1 (A-L). Schott, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7957-1330-7 (Contributions to the Middle Rhine Music History 29.1).
  • with Hermann Fischer: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 3: Former province of Upper Hesse . Part 2 (M-Z). Schott, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7957-1331-5 (Contributions to the Middle Rhine Music History 29.2).
  • Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 2: The area of ​​the former administrative district Wiesbaden (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history 7.1 . Part 1 (A – K)). Schott, Mainz 1975, ISBN 3-7957-1307-2 .
  • Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 2: The area of ​​the former government district Wiesbaden (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history 7.2 . Part 2 (L – Z)). Schott, Mainz 1975, ISBN 3-7957-1370-6 .
  • Organ builder from Austria on the Middle Rhine in the first half of the 18th century. Braumüller, Vienna 1975.
  • Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 1: Mainz and suburbs - Rheinhessen - Worms and suburbs (=  contributions to Middle Rhine music history 6 ). Schott, Mainz 1967, ISBN 978-3-7957-1306-5 .
  • On the history of the Trier cathedral organ after 1794. Festschrift for Alois Thomas, 1967, pp. 39–52.
  • The music in the Schornsheimer church. In: Mainz magazine. Vol. 60/61, 1965/1966, pp. 107-117.
  • with Ernst Fritz Schmid: The organs of Amorbach. A music history of the monastery. 2nd Edition. Schott, Mainz 1963.
  • The organs of the Protestant Marienstiftskirche in Lich. (= Contributions to the Middle Rhine Music History 6 ). Schmidt, Mainz 1962.
  • Contributions to the organ history of the Middle Rhine up to the beginning of the 16th century. 1961.
  • The organ building family Stumm from Rhaunen-Sulzbach and their work. A contribution to the history of d. Organ building on the Middle Rhine. In: Mainz magazine. Vol. 55, 1960, pp. 1-108.
  • The organs in the town church in Wertheim. In: Mainfränkisches Jahrbuch für Geschichte und Kunst. Vol. 11, 1959, pp. 197-233.
  • Music history of the city of Osnabrück. Sacred and secular music up to the beginning of the 19th century (= Freiburg Studies in Musicology 5 ). Pustet, Regensburg 1937.

literature

  • Hellmut Federhofer: Franz Bösken, 60 years old. In: Communications of the Working Group for Middle Rhine Music History. No. 18, 1969, pp. 171f.
  • Franz Bösken: Franz Bösken . In: Music in the past and present . Person Teil Vol. 15, 1973, Col. 891f.
  • Helmut Mathy : Franz Bösken on reaching the age of 65. Publications by Franz Bösken since 1969. In: Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Mittelrheinische Musikgeschichte (Hrsg.): Communications of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Mittelrheinische Musikgeschichte. Vol. 28 Working Group for Middle Rhine Music History, Mainz 1974, pp. 37–41.
  • Helmut Mathy: Ad multos annos. 4 congratulatory speeches for members d. Johannes Gutenberg University 1972–1974. 1. Fritz Arens on October 19, 1972. 2. Anton Philipp Brück on April 16, 1973. 3. Kurt Böhmer on November 29, 1974. 4. Franz Bösken on February 27, 1974. In: Yearbook of the Association of Friends of the University of Mainz. Vol. 23/24. Mainz 1974/1975, pp. 94-114.
  • Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Mittelrheinische Musikgeschichte (Ed.): Commemorative speeches for Franz Bösken. 1909-1976. Mainz 1976.
  • Helmut Mathy: Prof. Dr. Franz Bösken †. In: Musica sacra . 96, 1976, pp. 397-399.
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Riedel: Organ landscape on the Middle Rhine. The work of the organologist Franz Bösken. In: Organa Austriaca. 2, 1979, pp. 182-185.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Commemorative speeches for Franz Bösken. 1976, p. 13.
  2. ^ Commemorative speeches for Franz Bösken. 1976, p. 9.
  3. ^ Commemorative speeches for Franz Bösken. 1976, p. 24.
  4. ^ Commemorative speeches for Franz Bösken. 1976, p. 17.