Ils Fränzlis da Tschlin

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Ils Fränzlis da Tschlin are a folk music group from Tschlin in the Lower Engadine in the canton of Graubünden . The name refers to the blind musician Fränzli Waser (1858–1895), who had shaped a special style of the Swiss country with a line-up of wind and string instruments .

history

Ils Fränzlis da Tschlin was founded in 1982 by Men Steiner and Domenic Janett . The musicians do not copy the original style of Fränzli Waser, but edit existing pieces and write their own compositions in which elements of jazz or classical music are also incorporated. Italian, Viennese, Jenish and Rhaeto-Romanic influences can be heard. The musical director of the Fränzlis is Domenic Janett, who has also played with the Engadiner LÄNDERFRAINE since 1974 .

At first the Fränzlis rarely appeared in public. After 1996, when the first CD “Pariampampam” was released, there followed regular public appearances at home and abroad. In 2000 the film Increschantüm (Heimweh) by Stefan Haupt was released about and with the Fränzlis ; the first Romansh documentary film that was shown in cinemas in German-speaking Switzerland for weeks.

activities

Music workshop

Every summer in a music workshop in Tschlin, the free and spontaneous playing of folk music of the Lower Engadine is tried out and practiced together with interested musicians. Every day what has been learned is presented to the public in a small concert.

occupation

Ils Fränzlis da Tschlin today (2015) consist of Domenic Janett (clarinet), Curdin Janett (double bass), Cristina Janett (cello), Madlaina Janett (viola) and Anna Staschia Janett (violin).

Discography

  • Pariampampam , 1996
  • In viadi , 2000
  • Ballada , 2005
  • Fränzli live: Da La Turnhalla A La Tonhalla , 2008

Movie

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cinemabuch
  2. ↑ Description of the film and trailer at artfilm.ch , accessed on August 6, 2013.