Greetings. There are a number of free downloads on my website. Time-limited, they will appear 'free' for a while and be replaced by other titles from time to time. My BIO starts out with comments by composer Miroslav Hlaváč taken from a recommendation to a composers' society: "Franklin Stöver (1953-), composer, basset hornist, owner of Edition Hohenstaufen. A former long-time student of clarinetist Frealon C. Bibbins, he mentored by lengthy correspondence with me (Miroslav Hlaváč - Prague) for over 20 years and with university composers who were his advisors. Honors include grants from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation for a work for tárogató, an honorable mention from the National Music Theatre Network for comic opera Ketchup (text: Russell Edson), recordings by the Slovak Radio Orchestra, performances at Foerstrova Společnost (Prague), Vay Ádám Kastélymúzeum (Hungary), and use of his Hymn of Memnon for the 3rd Annual Vahtang Jordania International Conducting Symposium (2003) in Kharkov, Ukraine. Commissions include several film scores, notably The Cat and the Canary (DVD-1927, silent), featuring the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra. He is a contributor to Journal of the Collège de 'Pataphysique, the All Music Guide: Classical and has written program notes for orchestras worldwide. Stöver sometimes goes by the alias, Hans Ziegmar a fictitious Austrian composer and lumberjack."
Some of my early influences include Milhaud, Hindemith, Honneger, Guy Duijck, Friedrich Wildgans, Teo Macero, Miroslav Hlaváč, William Bergsma, Alban Berg, Martinů, Kubik, et cetera. I loosely describe my genre as 'neoclassical, omnitonic' and have a mild case of lexical-gustatory synaesthesia where tones and taste converges in my choice of sound forms and misophonia. A current project is the orchestration of Sigfrid Karg-Elert's large Symphonie in F# minor, op. 143 (1930), and a book, The Octavin "Das Deutsche Saxofon" (in preparation for a German publisher)
Direct email contact: Franklin Stöver - komponist53@gmail.com
Facebook link https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61593718813661&sk=directory_links
Highlights of my work can be heard at: https://soundcloud.com/f-st-ver
Links to a few of my articles on music
https://www.allmusic.com/composition/choral-improvisations-66-in-6-volumes-for-organ-op-65-mc0002374053
https://www.allmusic.com/composition/string-quartet-no-7-concerto-da-camera-h-314-mc0002363581
https://www.allmusic.com/composition/symphony-no-1-h-289-mc0002366536
https://www.allmusic.com/composition/concerto-for-clarinet-orchestra-or-piano-op-230-mc0002403380
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/adolphe-sax-mn0001661571/biography
https://www.allmusic.com/composition/suite-for-string-orchestra-jw-6-2-mc0002373528
https://www.allmusic.com/composition/jugend-for-flute-clarinet-horn-piano-op-139a-mc0002456311