Franz Posch

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The Innbrüggler with ORF presenter Franz Posch (third from left) in the show Mei liabste Weis at the Villacher Kirchtag, Carinthia, Austria (2019)

Franz Posch (born August 12, 1953 in Hall in Tirol ) is an Austrian folk musician and designer of music programs on radio and television.

Life

Posch began to occupy himself with music at the age of four when he could not leave the house for one winter after pneumonia and taught himself to play the diatonic accordion . Later trumpet , piano , clarinet , saxophone , trombone , guitar and folk musical instruments such as Tyrolean folk harp were added. (In the anniversary show “20 years of Mei liabste Weis” on February 23, 2008, in the most requested piece, the water pipe march , he played successively diatonic harmonica, flugelhorn, trumpet, valve trombone, tuba, clarinet, saxophone, harmonica, bass violin and snare drum .)

Franz Posch made his first radio recordings at the age of twelve, and at the age of 15 he appeared on Heinz Conrads' program " Good evening on Saturday ".

After attending the Franziskaner-Gymnasium in Hall , Franz Posch was first flugelhornist with the Tyrolean Military Music for 14 months . He then studied music and physical education at the University of Innsbruck and was professor at the Academic Gymnasium in Innsbruck from 1977 to 1990 . 1979 spondierte Posch for Master of Philosophy, in 1986 attained a doctorate it to the doctor of philosophy. Franz Posch has been teaching diatonic accordion at the Innsbruck Conservatory since autumn 1998.

From 1974 to 1989 he was a member of the “ Tiroler Kirchtagmusig ”, from 1987 to 1997 he was director of the “Dixielanders Hall”. The 10-member "Franz Posch Combo", which he founded in 1996, has dance and light music up to Dixieland in its repertoire. In 1991 Franz Posch put together the Innbrüggler group. The group consists of musicians from Dixielanders Hall and Posch's former students. Franz Posch plays the flugelhorn and trumpet for the Innbrügglers .

Franz Posch has been regularly designing folk music programs for Radio Tirol since 1979, and since 1988 he has presented the live television series “ Mei liabste Weis ”.

“This music is not commercially oriented and therefore not subject to fashions. Folk music persists because it is best suited to work in a small circle, in the village community. " (Franz Posch)

Since 2017, Franz Posch has been a cultural ambassador for the "CASA HOGAR" project, which advocates women's education in the Colombian crisis region of Chocó .

Fonts

  • Gottlieb Weissbacher (1907 - 1988): a contribution to the history of Tyrolean dance music . Diss. Univ. Innsbruck (Hochschulschriften Innsbruck 105), 1996.

Awards (excerpt)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Decoration of honor for Franz Posch on ORF from November 7, 2013, accessed on November 8, 2013.

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Posch, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian folk musician
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Hall in Tirol , Austria