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  • 1964 – 1968

    Conservatory in Bratislava (trombone – J. Beneš, composing – J. Pospíšil)

  • 1968 – 1970

    attended several semesters at the Hochschule für Musik in Basel (composing – G. Benett)

  • 1970 – 1976

    Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (composing – Dezider Kardoš)

  • since 1976

    music director in the Slovak Radio

  • 1987 – 1990

    music director in the OPUS recording company

  • 1990 – 1991

    editor of the department for symphonic, chamber and opera music of the Slovak Radio

  • 1991 – 1997

    head of the Music ensembles section of the Slovak Radio

  • 1997 – 2000

    head of the Major music genres department of the Slovak Radio

  • since 2000

    pedagogue of the Conservatory in Bratislava (composition, instrumentation, music direction)

  • since 2006

    simultaneously lectures at the Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (music direction, music dramaturgy, music theory for the sound masters)

"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.)

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