Franklin Stöver (1953-), composer, clarinetist, content writer on music and founder of Edition Hohenstaufen. A former student of clarinetist Frealon C. Bibbins, he mentored with composers Andrew Imbrie, and by lengthy correspondance with Miroslav Hlaváč (Prague) for 25 years; aside from that he is mainly an autodidact. Honors include grants from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation for a work for tárogató, an honorable mention from the National Music Theatre Network for a comic operaKetchup, recordings by the Slovak Radio Orchestra, and performances at Foerstrova Společnost (Prague), Vay Ádám Kastélymúzeum (Hungary), etc. Commissions include a film score for The Cat and the Canary (DVD-1929, silent), featuring the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra which can be viewed athttps://archive.org/details/TheCatAndTheCanary1927DVDRipSiRiUsSHaRe/, a work for contrabassoon and piano, and commissions for many chamber works. He is also a contributor to The All Music Guide: Classical and lives in northern California. Main influences include Milhaud, Hindemith, Honneger, Bergsma, Martinů, Berg, et cetera. .