Franz Watz
Franz Watz (born March 9, 1949 in Neu-Arad , Banat , People's Republic of Romania ) is a musician, composer and arranger who also works under pseudonyms such as Joe Grain .
Life
Franz Watz attended a music high school and played the clarinet and piano. He then studied music education , musicology and tuba at the University of Music in Cluj-Napoca . After the state examination he played in dance and entertainment orchestras and founded a youth wind orchestra. From 1972 to 1976 he was a member of the Arad Philharmonic Orchestra and taught music at the German-speaking grammar school. From 1977 to 2013 he was musical director of the Ehningen Music Association. He has been composing and arranging for various publishers since 1979. He has been active as a freelance composer, conductor and teacher in brass music since 1985. After 20 years as a conductor in Ehningen , Franz Watz was appointed Music Director of the Musikverein by the Ehningen City Council in 1997.
Compositions
Marches
- Ad multos annos (concert march)
- European stars (concert march)
- In the shine of the stars (concert march)
- In old friendship (march)
- The Bohemian Fire (Concert March)
- Greetings to Austria (March)
- Cossack ride (concert march)
Polkas
- The old forge (polka)
- Memories of Brno (Polka)
- Joy of music (bravura polka)
- Enjoy life (polka)
- Heidrun polka (polka)
- Musician mood (polka)
- Holidays at Lake Constance (Solopolka)
- Holidays in the Bohemian Forest (Polka)
- When Heidrun tells (Polka)
- Our favorite polka
- Pretzel polka
- Little little boy ... (polka)
waltz
- The bohemian fairy tale (waltz)
- Autumn pictures (waltz)
- Dreamy Bohemia (Waltz)
- Gablonzer glassblower (waltz)
Other works
- Aphrodite (overture)
- Concertino (solo concert)
- Playa Blanca (Latin)
- Grand Canyon Panorama (Overture)
Arrangements
- Like in the old days (Polka, Hans Bruss)
- Kronstadt girls (Polka, Hans Bruss)
- Kurschatten-Polka (Polka, Wolfgang Gutmann)
- It's nice at home (Waltz, Günther Friedmann)
- In the afterglow (Waltz, Günther Friedmann)
- Moon whispers (waltz, Michael Klostermann)
- Julia-Polka (Polka, Michael Klostermann)
- Like a dream (Polkalied, Rudi Fischer)
- For you (Waltz, Rudi Fischer)
- Friends remember (Polka, Michael Seufert)
- This is our polka (Polka, Freek Mestrini)
- Bohemian Longing (Waltz, Freek Mestrini)
- Kinzbacher Musikanten (concert march, Andy Schreck)
- At the funny landlord (Polka, Andy Schreck)
- Egerländer Musikantenpolka (Jaroslav Tvrdy)
- Say thank you with red roses (Waltz, Walter Geiger)
- Bohemian souvenirs (polka potpourri , Christian Bruhn)
- My son (Polka, Thorsten Feisthammel)
- Half a century (Polka, Very Rickenbacher)
- Things dear to the heart (Polka, Benno Peter)
- POS (Concert March, Edward Maj)
- The dashing Toni (Polka, Siegfried Rundel)
- Our most beautiful (Polka, Siegfried Rundel)
- In a cheerful mood (Polka, Frank Ehret)
- Dearest girl (Polka, Dalke, Mück)
- Anja-Polka (Holger Mück)
- At the village festival (Polka, Kornel Hetterich)
literature
- Wolfgang and Armin Suppan: The new lexicon of brass music , Blasmusikverlag Schulz, Freiburg / Breisgau 1994, ISBN 3-923058-07-1
Web links
- Works by Franz Watz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by Joe Grain in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ehningen Music Association .
- ↑ hog-neuarad.de , Franz Watz, a musician, teacher and composer from New Arad.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Watz, Franz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Grain, Joe (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Musician and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 9, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New Arad , People's Republic of Romania |