Background
His father, January-Laurens Krafft, was a poet, writer, music publisher and composer of German descent.
His father, January-Laurens Krafft, was a poet, writer, music publisher and composer of German descent.
He was organist at the Saint Bavo Cathedral in Ghent from 1769 to 1794. Little is known of his life. Frans Krafft was active as a musician and printer in Brussels from 1747 onwards.
L"Echo, a music magazine from Liège, published some thirty arias by him between 1758 and 1769, two of which from his opera Le faux astrologue – in 1763 performed in Dutch as Den valschen Astrologant.
On 7 April 1769 he is appointed organist to the Saint Bavo Cathedral in Ghent, a post he held until 23 August 1794, a few months before his death. At the time of this appointment he was already well reputed in the Netherlands, with main works performed in churches of major towns like Kortrijk and Leuven.