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Franz Watz
Biography
Franz Watz (b. 9 March 1949, Arad, Romania) is a Romanian-born German composer and educator.
Watz studied at the High School for Music in Klausenburg and played clarinet and piano. He then studied music pedagogy , musicology and Tuba at the Academy of Music in Cluj-Napoca.
Watz played with several popular orchestras, including dance orchestras. He founded and led a youth band and also performed with the Aarad Philharmonic Orchestra from 1972-1976.
Since 1977, he has taught at the Boblingen Music School and has worked for the Rundel Verlag as a composer and arranger. After a 20-year conducting career in Ehningen, Watz was appointed musical director of the Musikverein by the council Ehningen in 1997.
He composed under the pseudonym Joe Grain.
Works for Winds
Adaptable Music
- Die fesche Toni (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (/2016)
- Fesche Jugend (Flex instrumentation) (with Rundel; as arranger) (1981/2016)
All Wind Works
- Ein Walzer zum Träumen (2019)
- Europasterne (1990)
- Fesche Jugend (Flex instrumentation) (with Rundel; as arranger) (1981/2016)
- Fesche Jugend (Wind Ensemble) (with Rundel) (1981)
- Hyperion March (2002)
- Im Glanz der Sterne Marsch (2010)
- Laura Polka (2015)
- Musikantenfreundschaft (1991)
- Prater Perlen Marsch (2009)
- Prelude for Concert Band
Resources
- Franz Watz, Wikipedia Accessed 21 March 2016
- Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music. "Franz Watz." Accessed 21 March 2016.