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This article is about the clarinet virtuoso and composer. An overview of other meanings of the name "Franz Tausch" can be found under Franz Tausch (definition of terms ) .

Franz Wilhelm Tausch (born December 26, 1762 in Heidelberg , † February 9, 1817 in Berlin ) was a German clarinet virtuoso and composer .

Franz Tausch was one of the first great clarinet virtuosos. At the age of six he was tutored by his father Jacob Tausch, and two years later he was a member of the electoral court orchestra in Mannheim, where he played the clarinet and violin. When the court moved to Munich in 1778, Tausch also turned its back on its homeland. From Munich he began to advance his career as a clarinetist and to be heard as a traveling virtuoso. Together with his orchestra colleague Peter von Winter, he went to Vienna in 1780/81 on an electoral scholarship to study with Antonio Salieri . On April 1, 1789, he said goodbye in Munich and followed a call as a chamber musician in royal services to Berlin, where he was also in the König orchestraFriedrich Wilhelm II played. Even under his successor Friedrich Wilhelm III. Tausch worked in Berlin and finally founded the Conservatory of Wind Instruments there in 1805 together with other virtuosos . Among his numerous students are such famous virtuosos as Bernhard Henrik Crusell and Heinrich Joseph Baermann . In Berlin he was a member of the Masonic Lodge “Urania zur Immortlichkeit”.

Tausch's works include various concerts for his instrument, some concert symphonies, and numerous chamber music.

Web links

• Literature by and about Franz Tausch in the catalog of the German National Library