Franz Hauk

Franz Hauk has multiple careers as an organist, choir director, educator, and musicologist. He has been prominent in the rediscovery of composer Simon Mayr, founding the Simon Mayr Choir to explore his music, and has recorded widely as both an organist and conductor. Hauk was born in 1955 in Neuburg an der Donau in Germany's Bavaria region. He studied piano, organ, and church music in high school and went on to the Musikhochschule München and for further studies in Salzburg, Austria. He returned to Munich for a master's degree in 1981 and, after winning several awards, earned...