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FRANZ WILHELM TAUSCH (1762 - 1817)
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Franz Wilhelm Tausch was born in Heidelberg, Germany in 1762. He was taught the violin and clarinet
from his father Jacob, a member of the Mannheim Orchestra. At the age of 13, Franz joined the orchestra as a full-time member.
Father and son followed the court when it moved to Munich in 1778. And from then on Franz started developing his solo career.
In 1789 he moved to Berlin, taking up a position as chamber musician to the dowager Queen of Preussia.
Tausch spent the following years in Berlin. First as court musician at the courts of Frederick William II and III. In 1805 he
founded the 'Conservatory for Wind Instruments' in Berlin, where he as a teacher had distinguished pupils such as Heinrich Bearmann
and Bernard Henrik Crusell.
Tausch, who was one of the first great clarinet virtuosi, died in Berlin in 1817.
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