Franz Joseph Fröhlich

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Franz Joseph Fröhlich
Honorary grave in the main cemetery in Würzburg

Franz Joseph Fröhlich (born May 28, 1780 in Würzburg ; † January 5, 1862 there ) was a German university lecturer and musicologist .

Life

From 1797 Franz Joseph Fröhlich worked at the prince-bishop's court orchestra in Würzburg. In the same year he founded the Collegium Musicum Academicum Wirceburgense , from which the Würzburg University of Music later developed. In 1804 the Collegium Musicum was affiliated to the University of Würzburg as a public music institution ; from 1820 it existed independently next to the university. In the more than 60 years of its tenure, Fröhlich expanded it from 20 to 600 students a year.

Fröhlich, formally private lecturer at the University of Würzburg since 1804, was appointed extraordinary professor of sound art and aesthetics at the university on September 28, 1811. Since 1815 Fröhlich has given art historical lectures, in the winter semester 1816/17 even combined with a “critical examination of existing works of art”. On February 11, 1819, he was also given the title of "Professor of Education and Didactics". In 1821 Fröhlich was promoted to full professor. In 1832 the university picture collection, which Fröhlich gradually brought together, was given the name "Aesthetic Attribute" and was temporarily given a purchase budget by the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior; this was the nucleus of the Martin von Wagner Museum , which was then on the upper floor of the Old University. In 1838 he received an honorary doctorate from the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Würzburg. On March 11, 1858, at the age of almost 78, Fröhlich asked the Elector to dismiss him from his service.

With his work at the Musikhochschule and the University of Würzburg, Fröhlich laid the foundation for a regulated and systematic training of musicians and teachers. He was also active to a small extent as a musician and music writer.

literature

  • Hermann Beck:  Happy, Franz Joseph. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 648 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Dieter Kirsch: Happy farewell. Comments and documents on Franz Joseph Fröhlich's petition for dismissal of March 11, 1858 . In: Music and University: 200 years of academic music education in Würzburg . Würzburg 1997. ISBN 3-8260-1437-5 , pp. 15–28 (with picture)
  • Ulrich Konrad (ed.), Franz Josef Fröhlich. Selected writings on music. With a biographical treatise and a document attachment by Dieter Kirsch . Würzburg 2013 (= sources and studies on the music history of Würzburg and Mainfranken, Volume 2).

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