Friedrich Franke

Friedrich Wilhelm Franke (German: Friedrich Wilhelm Franke; 21 June 1862 – 3 April 1932) was a German organist and teacher.

He graduated from the Berlin Hochschule für Musik, where, under the influence of Philipp Spitta, he turned to the works of Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel as the core repertoire of his performing activity.

Franke worked as an organist in Stralsund and Pretz.

From 1891 he taught organ at the Cologne Hochschule für Musik and became a professor there in 1900. At the same time, he performed the organ part in concerts of the Gürzenich Orchestra.

He published several instructional works on harmony and organ performance, as well as a two-volume study of Bach’s church cantatas, Johann Sebastian Bachs Kirchenkantaten (1925–1927).

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