Franz Winkler (musician)

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Franz Winkler (* 17th September 1906 in Sistrans , † 8. May 1962 in Bregenz ) was an Austrian composer and musician of popular music .

Life

Franz Winkler grew up in a musical family and made house music with his parents and his sisters Albertine and Hedwig as well as his younger brother Rudolf. He also received instrumental lessons in his Tyrolean home village of Sistrans. He completed his training as a painter and house painter before devoting himself only to his career as a musician. As a singer and composer, Franz Winkler celebrated his first successes in Buenos Aires in 1929. He had visited his two brothers who worked there as painters. Perhaps out of homesickness, he composed the song Fly Home with Me . In 1939 he began to perform with his sister Albertine Seifert (1902–1951) as the singing duo "Geschwister Winkler". In the same year the two formed the "Winkler Trio" with Winkler's wife Ingeborg (1923–2011). In 1947 the family moved to Lochau , where Winkler lived until his death. The group has now made numerous appearances in the Lake Constance region. It expanded to become the Franz Winkler Quartet when Winkler's daughter Olga Homann joined them with the accordion.

Vroni Stöckel joined Albertine Seifert on the zither . In total, Winkler had a repertoire of around 120 songs, some of which were published on shellac records . Among other things, the songs he composed himself were successful: Die Fischerin vom Bodensee , Tirol, du Heimat der Berge und Fliege mit mir nach Heimat . Franz Winkler died in 1962 of complications from a liver disease. A plaque commemorates him on his former home on Haggen in Lochau.

Discography (excerpts)

  • Fly home with me (1930), internationally the most successful hit (English title: Forever and Ever , French title: Étoile des neiges )
  • Tyrol, you home of the mountains (1943)
  • Die Fischerin vom Bodensee (1948), eponymous German homeland film Die Fischerin vom Bodensee (English title: Willow, will you weep for Me?, French title: La Fée Du Lac Bleu )
  • Alpine peace
  • Innsbruck, you beautiful alpine city
  • Tyrol, you home of the mountains
  • You my Tyrolean country
  • At the old city gate
  • The singer and the dairymaid
  • At the Lindau harbor
  • From the Arlberg to Lake Constance
  • The glaciers are white
  • My dirndl

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Franz Winkler rundel.de . Retrieved October 26, 2015.
  2. ^ Winkler, Franz In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Retrieved October 26, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Winkler, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Sistrans
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1962
Place of death Bregenz