Franz R. Friedl was an Austrian violist, composer and film composer. The son of a cooper he attended grammar school and then received artistic training from Rosé and Carl Flesch. Friedl then worked as concertmaster in Dortmund and Dresden. From 1923 to 1926 Franz Friedl was principal violist at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, since 1927 the Upper Austrian, worked as a composer and composed chamber music, overtures. From 1933 he was music composer for theatre and films, as well as a conductor for the Berlin Symphony Orchestra.
Was a member of German performing rights society GEMA.
Do not confuse with Austrian composer namesake Franz Friedl (born in
Vienna on 15 September 1909, died in Vienna on 3 October 1982) who was
a member of the Austrian performing rights society AKM.
The film composer Franz R. Riedl entered the film business in 1934 and in the next years he wrote the music for short movies and documentaries like "Von Königsberg bis Berchtesgaden" (34) and and "Rätsel der Urwaldhölle" (1938).
Franz R. Riedl was able to continue his career as a film composer after the war and he wrote the music to movies like Es geht nicht ohne Gisela" (1951) and "Kanaillen" (1958).
During World War II Franz R. Riedl did only write the music for short movies and documentaries.