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1964 – 1968
Conservatory in Bratislava (trombone – J. Beneš, composing – Juraj Pospíšil)
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1968 – 1970
attended several semesters at the Hochschule für Musik in Basel (composition – Gerald Benett)
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1970 – 1976
Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (composing – Dezider Kardoš)
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since 1976
music director in the Slovak Radio
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1987 – 1990
music director in the OPUS recording company
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1990 – 1991
editor of the department for symphonic, chamber and opera music of the Slovak Radio
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1991 – 1997
head of the Music ensembles section of the Slovak Radio
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1997 – 2000
Head of Music Broadcasting, Head of the Specialized Editorial Office for Major Music Genres at Slovak Radio (SRo)
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2000 – 2010
Teacher at the Conservatory in Bratislava (composition, instrumentation, music direction)
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2006 – 2022
Lecturer at the Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (music direction, music dramaturgy, music theory for sound engineers)
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Since 2022
External lecturer at the Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (music direction, music dramaturgy)
"Poul’s work as a composer is not very extensive. In the beginning, while studying at university, he was influenced by his head teachers. His early composition betrays an inclination to working with the twelve-tone free technique; in later years he became open to using tonal centres. Subsequent stages are characterised by modifications of adopted techniques within the limits of contemporary musical aesthetics, approaching the essentials of neo-impressionism. The works which Poul created show him to be a composer with a refined sense of formal equilibrium, a mastery of instrumental technique, and an impressive ability to construct contrasts. His point of departure is thematic material with more or less emphatic tonal centres, in a certain sense associated with the Hindemith orientation. In vocal work he typically has a sensitive approach to the text, an assured grasp of texture and a capacity for diverse variation, which gives dynamism to his composition."
(DOHNALOVÁ, Lýdia: František Poul. In: A Hundred Slovak Composers. Eds. Marián Jurík, Peter Zagar. Bratislava : National Music Centre Slovakia, 1998, p. 233.)